What happens to the things we throw away? Kitchen scraps, disposable coffee cups, plastic bags, food packaging, batteries, cigarette butts…where do they end up?
Çöp Sohbetleri / Garbage Talks took place in Spring 2019 and was a platform to meet and exchange ideas around our relationship to waste in the city. Gatherings - almost always around food - took place monthly and ranged from a workshop-style event to a ‘compost’ pot-luck.
Çöp Sohbetleri III brought people together around the theme of composting. Burcu Arikan, an urban farmer and mushroom grower, led the way in sharing some compost basics and leading people to construct and start a vermi (worm) compost from re-used yogurt containers.
Read MoreFollowing from our first event in March, Çöp Sohbetleri II brought a new and larger group of people together. Again we gathered around the general question of, “What is uour relationship to waste in the city?”
Read MoreOur first Çöp Sohbetleri event took place on Friday, 8 March. We gathered around a potluck dinner of foods - made with waste-less-nes in mind - which included left-over sourdough crackers and pizzas, orange rinds dipped chocolate, and more.
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