Every province, and what its bin is made of

How this map was built

Three inputs, all of them published, and one model applied on top.

• Population, area, GDP per capita and region: TÜİK ADNKS 2025 (86,092,168 people) and provincial GDP 2024, via the open Turkish Provinces Dataset.
• Per-person collection rate: TÜİK's own municipal waste measurements — a directly measured rate for 13 provinces, otherwise the measured rate of the province's region (Aegean 1.33, Mediterranean 1.18, Marmara 1.17, Eastern Anatolia 1.08, Central Anatolia 1.04, Black Sea 0.98, Southeastern Anatolia 0.96 kg per person per day).
• Organic share: 46 to 55 percent measured for Türkiye (Bursa's own plan measured 52.15 percent, İstanbul 50 to 60 percent, a national study 54.6 percent). The map uses 50 percent.

46–55% · 50%

The arithmetic, in full

1. municipal waste = population x per-person rate x 365
2. food and garden waste = municipal waste x 0.50
3. buried organic = food and garden waste x 0.864 (69.4 percent landfill plus 17 percent open dumping, 2022)
4. rates are scaled by 0.98455 so the provinces sum to 34.4 million tonnes nationally

What this map is not

• It is not a measurement of every province. Only 13 have a published rate of their own; the rest inherit their region's, which is a real measurement but not theirs.
• It counts what municipalities collect. On-farm loss, market and hal waste, and industrial food processing are outside it — which matters most in agricultural provinces, where collection figures look low while food is still being lost.
• Seasonality is invisible. Coastal provinces triple in summer, and the annual average flattens that.