With the “International Convention on the Prevention of Pollution of the Seas by Ships (MARPOL 73/78),” to which our country became a party in 1990, rules were introduced for the prevention of pollution of the marine environment; and it was made compulsory for Port States to have waste reception facilities in order to receive the wastes stated in annexes I, II, IV and V of the Contract and generated as a result of normal operations of ships. Article 7-i of the Metropolitan Municipality Law no. 5216 and the “Regulation on Receiving Waste from Ships and Control of Wastes” published in the Official Gazette issue 25682 dated 26.12.2004 obligate our Municipality to establish a waste reception facility within the Istanbul Sea Boundaries and to dispose of the wastes arising from the normal operations of the ships in a way that does not cause delay.

Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality started to collect the wastes of sea vehicles as of 08/09/2005 by constructing a Waste Acceptance and Treatment facility in Haydarpaşa in order to fulfill its obligation under the said Regulation. Marine wastes collected within this scope are subjected to physical pre-separation process at Haydarpaşa Waste Reception Facility and then delivered to our company for sorting and recycling processes. After the pre-separation process, the wastes separated according to their quality are subjected to the separation process by means of reactors in our Ergene Waste Recovery facility to obtain waste oil and waste solvent.