As is all over the world, the most challenging environmental problem encountered by people is wastes in large allocation units.

Household solid wastes are composed of organic wastes as 68 % and remaining are paper, cardboard, textile, plastics, leather metal, wood, glass and ashes.

Approximately 65 thousand tons of household wastes are produced in a day in our country.

There are three basic principal of the management of solid wastes in our country and on the world. Generating less waste, recycling wastes and disposing thereof without damaging environment.

Treating all services from collection of wastes, to storage or disposing within the framework of a schedule and evaluating and recycling said wastes is called as "environment friendly waste management".

Wastes not stored as appropriate causes underground and surface water pollution, generation of pests, malodors to reek of, visual pollution and disease carrying bacteria to be spread by means of various animals.

If we do not reduce waste at source, we may not breath sometimes later within the range of waste hills.

If we do not want coming generations to encounter waste hills, we have to consume conscious and generate less waste.

First waste disaster in our country happened in Istanbul, Umraniye district on 28.04.1993. Ground was subsided since wastes were not handled in conformity with the procedure to which wastes were dumped for 20 years.

There are only 11 landfill waste collection areas of 3215 municipalities in our country.

There is only one active compost facility in our country.

Houses, working places and buildings used by any means (including empty buildings) are subject to environment tax which are located within municipal region and adjacent areas and benefiting solid waste collection and sewerage services of the municipalities.

Our seas, lakes, roads and parks are not waste areas. Wastes must be disposed to waste boxes. We have to warn those people polluting environment dropping litter anywhere.

Cemical substances within cells thrown away will return us as poison polluting land and water sources.

Environment friendly cleaning agents composed of natural components not harmful to environment must be preferred instead of cleaning agents containing chemical substances harmful to human health.

Lets use rechargeable cells instead of disposable cells.

Asbestos is a heat and fire resistant and insulated material. Asbestos is harmful to human health and other living species when it goes to respiratory system and pulmonary. It has particularly has carcinogenic characteristics.