Approximately 40% of the U.K.’s plastic waste was sent to Turkey last year, according to a Greenpeace U.K. report. This is equivalent to 210,000 metric tons of plastic waste. The report has established that a bulk of the U.K.’s recyclable plastic that is sent to Turkey is either burned or ends up in landfills, roadsides and bodies of water. Greenpeace investigated about 10 sites across Southern Turkey and found evidence of plastic packaging from U.K.