“Preliminary Research Report on Circularity Potential of Five Sectors in Turkey” was prepared in cooperation with SKD Turkey, KPMG Turkey and KPMG France with the funding support of l'Agence Française de Développement.
The report includes a preliminary research study of circularity potential by focusing on five major industries in Turkey. Plastic packaging, textile, home appliances, automotive and construction industries were the five sectors selected for this research, due to their importance in the Turkish economy, their resource-intensive nature, and their strategic imperative in regard to circularity related initiatives such as the Circular Economy Action Plan.
During the study, interviews and meetings were held with industry leaders, companies and researchers alongside consulting renowned publications to evaluate and determine risks and opportunities germane to each industry in Turkey. This study consists of two phases, in which sector level research and company level circularity calculations were conducted in order to present a few examples, focusing on associated materials flow and physical waste-streams, excluding water and energy cycles.
29 companies from 5 different sectors participated via surveys; additionally, meetings were held with 15 different companies to evaluate the circularity potential of these 5 industries. We estimated the average circularity of the inputs as around 7% and output as around 13% for the plastic packaging sector while in the textile sector, the circularity of inputs was around 16% and outputs were around 23% based on the information received from volunteering companies. The circularity ratios were calculated based on a derivative method that was inspired by the CTI framework methodology developed by WBCSD.
More industry players would need to contribute to such studies in order to analyse opportunities and barriers in more detail. We hope that this report will serve as a forerunner for future studies regarding circularity in Turkey and encourage more companies to participate in them.
