The local municipality is about to initiate a recycling program, long overdue but better late than never. When we stayed in the TRNC during the lockdown in 2020 there simply was no recycling. Presume that water bottles and beer tins can now be recycled as there is a large cage affair near the Blue Song for same - to which we keep forgetting to take our tins when we go. Don’t think that glass is recycled at all, which is not unusual. Isn’t at home either. This sounds somewhat better organised than the past, although deposits would be better. Roadsides full of discarded soft drink cans and occasionally beer bottles which might be retrieved by someone if they could be turned into cash. And then there are the cities, like Istanbul and Rome that have developed schemes for taking recyclables in exchange for transit fares, though not sure that would work with the dolmuş system.
Meanwhile our little venture with the waste basket in front of the building seems to be working - more or less. Appears that some people who won’t take ten steps to put an empty cigarette pack in the bin are, happily, not prepared to drop it immediately next to the waste basket. Progress of a sort.