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Marine biologist and academic at Cukurova University Sedat Gundogdu poses next to a dump on November 29, 2020 in the southern Turkish province of Adana. - It is supposed to be recycled but instead plastic packaging from popular British supermarkets like Sainsbury's and French frozen food retailer Picard is ending up being dumped illegally in the Turkish countryside. There are at least 10 known sites in southern Turkey where European plastics have been dumped illegally. (Photo by Yasin AKGUL / AFP) (KEYSTONE/AFP/YASIN AKGUL)