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.