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Bedri Girit: Uşak, the capital of recycling, has become a role model for Türkiye in sustainability

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Uşak, the capital of recycling and circular economy, is leading Turkey in sustainability…

The Aegean Exporters’ Associations EIB), which brought 18.4 billion dollars in foreign currency to Türkiye in 2024, travels from province to province to share its services and state aids in order to increase the export performance of the provinces in its area of duty and to make maximum use of the state aids provided by the Ministry of Trade under 16 headings.

Bedri Girit

The third stop in the ‘Aegean Business World’ meetings was the Aegean province of Uşak, which has a 75 percent share in the country’s textile recycling.

Speaking at the meeting hosted by Uşak Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Bedri Girit, Chair of Aegean Fisheries and Animal Products Exporters’ Association, said that they have an obligation to leave a livable world to future generations and that Uşak has made a great contribution to leaving a more livable world to future generations with its recycling and circular economy.

“Climate change caused by global warming is disrupting the balance of the world,” said Girit, “The world needs 1.7 worlds to continue its life with its current comfort. Since this is not possible, we need to focus on circular economy to reduce the burning effects of climate change and reduce carbon emissions.”

“Our focus should be on innovative solutions to develop sustainable, reusable, recyclable materials based on circular textile principles, supply chains that are sensitive to environmental and human values, ethical production, products with a long lifespan such as repair, maintenance, second-hand use, and production models that include unused products back into the process. Uşak is an exemplary city at this point,” Girit noted.

Sharing that Uşak exported 442 million dollars in 2024 according to the data of the Activity provinces announced by the Ministry of Trade, Girit added, “The potential of Uşak, which has achieved great success in recycling and circular economy, is at a level to export 1 billion dollars very easily and we expect 1 billion dollars of exports from Uşak exporters. We invite our exporters from Uşak to make maximum use of the state aids provided by our Ministry of Trade in order to reach this target.”

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