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An employees checks recycled material on November 28, 2020 at GAMA Recycle factory in the southern Turkish province of Gaziantep. - It is supposed to be recycled but instead plastic packaging from popular British supermarkets like Sainsbury's and French frozen food retailer Picard is ending up being dumped illegally in the Turkish countryside. There are at least 10 known sites in southern Turkey where European plastics have been dumped illegally. (Photo by Yasin AKGUL / AFP) (KEYSTONE/AFP/YASIN AKGUL)