Turkish firm pledges to stop using single-use plastic

ISTANBUL

Turkey’s leading conglomerate Koc Holding promised on Thursday to stop using single-use plastic products as of the end of 2020.

“We are committed to stop disposable plastic consumption in all Koc Group companies and organizations, with over 90,000 colleagues,” Levent Cakiroglu, the CEO of the company, said in a press release.

Following an art exhibition, Istanbul Biennial, which was themed on ocean plastic waste and was sponsored by Koc Holding, Cakiroglu noted: “The amount of plastic waste that we could not deal with turned into pollution which threatens the environment and human health.”

Underlining the firm’s decisiveness in tackling

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