Project Name: Community-Based Recycling for A Litter Free Mediterranean

Date: December 2018 - March 2020

Place: Kemer, Antalya

Role Of DKM: Project Implementation

Project Partners: Kemer Municipality, United Nations Development Programme

Project Supporters: Coca-Cola Foundation

Communication: M. Hüseyin Çataloluk

Summary Of Project:

There is a need for community-based approaches which will support Municipalities in regions with high natural and tourism value, where local population increases 3-5 fold during toursim season, and where Municipalities who are responsible for bringing services to large areas, face challenges in managing wastes and packaging wastes in particular.
The town of Kemer is one of the important locations needing these community-based approaches. The Community-Based Recycling for A litter Free Mediterranean Project, aims to improve Kemer’s existing waste management system through community-based methods thus reducing the produced waste and increasing recycling rates and regain wastes which can not be collected by the Municipality and which end up in the sea back into the recycling system. At the end of the project, a model which can be implemented in Turkey’s other similar small settlements and regions with high natural and tourism value will be developed.
Visitors (tourists, same-day visitors, picnickers, mountaineers, etc.) who are the primary sources of wastes left unattended in nature as well as local communities have been identified as the main target groups of the project.
The project includes data collection, analyses, strategies, implementation and development phases based on collaboration with local communities, visitors, the Municipality and other responsible stakeholders. Some of the activities which will be realized during the project are:

• Preventing the formation and accommulation of wastes at their sources, raising awareness on waste separation and zero waste and
• Establishing the necessary infrastructure for communities to play more active role regarding the issue and developing appropriate tools (smart phone application, river traps, innovative waste collection tools and city furniture etc.) for this goal.

You can visit http://www.kollektapp.orgin order to download our smart phone application Kollekt, which invites everyone in Kemer to be a part of the solution and to support the project which set out with the goal of a CLEAN MEDITERRANEAN.


The project started implementation in 2018 in cooperation with Nature Conservation Centre (DKM) and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) with the financial support of Coca-Cola Foundation and is planned to be disseminated to the whole of Turkey in the future.