Moreover,landfilling is the ultimate disposal method for waste that cannot be recovered.
Until recently,Turkey's traditional method of disposing of municipal solid waste was to dump it at open sites_of which there are over 2000_or at sea.
In1993,the accident at the Umraniye-Hekimbasi open dumpsite,which took place in Istanbul as a result of an explosion of the gases compressed within the dumping area,resulting in the death of 39 people ,became a starting point in the handling of the municipal solid waste problem.