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The world has started to notice. Some of it voted. 🌍🗳️

• The United Nations named Gaziantep one of 20 Cities Towards Zero Waste.

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Two weeks in. You have met our history and our green city. From here, we turn to what this city is best known for: what comes out of its kitchens.
🍽️ Not just a city. A crossroads.
Which city should hear this story next? Tag them below 👇

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It is still finding new ways to give back. 🌍

Would you have guessed manure could keep the lights on? Tell us below! 👇

#Biogas #CircularEconomy #RenewableEnergy #SustainableAgriculture #GaziantepGlobal

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Before this city thought about clean energy, it thought about soil. 🌾

In Oğuzeli, just outside the city, a biogas plant takes in what nobody else wants.

Around 150 tonnes of animal manure, every single day.

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Nothing buried, nothing left to drift into the air. It has collected awards along the way, including one that named it a Low Carbon Hero. Here, the golden fertiliser gets more attention. This land has been farmed for thousands of years.

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We are not fully there yet, trucks still arrive every morning. But the gas that once rose off this city now helps power it.

Not just a city. A crossroads.

#WasteToEnergy #CircularEconomy #ClimateAction #GaziantepGlobal

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A landfill breathes. That is the part most people never consider. 🌫️

Buried waste releases methane, a gas that traps far more atmospheric heat than carbon dioxide. Left alone, it quietly damages our climate. So we stopped leaving it alone.

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Right next door, a newer plant supported by European Union and United Nations partnerships takes this further: sorting incoming waste to recover close to 17,000 tonnes of valuable materials each year.

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Which environmental lesson from your childhood stayed with you?

#ZeroWaste #EnvironmentalEducation #FutureGenerations #GaziantepGlobal

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A zero-waste city doesn't start with machinery. It starts in the classroom. 🎒🌱

For 12 years, Gaziantep has introduced its children to two special characters: Soil and Water.

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More than 600,000 students have grown up with this lesson. A city that has passed traditions down since the Silk Road is now passing down something even more vital: how to protect our shared future.

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The Silk Road once carried spices and silk through this crossroads. This century, it carries clean power.

How is your city transitioning to renewable energy?

#EBRDGreenCities #RenewableEnergy #SolarPower #ClimateFinance #GaziantepGlobal

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600,000 years of human history. Now learning to run on its own sun. ☀️

Gaziantep is building its solar park in stages:
The first is already supplying clean energy to the grid. The second is now producing as well. The third is under construction.

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We are not doing this alone. Backed by the EBRD Green Cities programme, Gaziantep was among the first cities in Türkiye to make this ambitious commitment. The end goal is clear: that everything this municipality uses will one day come directly from the sun above it.