'Nobody cares': the Turkish farmers bearing the burden of UK's plastic waste problem

Britain exported 139,000 tonnes of rubbish to Turkey last year, leaving farmers in Adana to deal with toxic smoke and plastic debris. Between May 2021 and July 2024, 13 British companies sent 545 shipments of waste to the region. Ayhan, a local farmer, said, "Nobody cares," about their ruined crops.