Determining Organic Waste Potential of Mobile Public Bazaars in Samsun (Review)

Abstract

Mobile public bazaar is an important part of our culture in Turkey. This bazaar settles down every day in a certain place of the towns or city districts in Turkey. Turkey has 81 provinces and 957 towns in total and a public bazaar settles down in a town every day. If you take into consideration the number of towns, theoretically 957 mobile public bazaars must be settling down every day in Turkey. This number is enough to imagine the size of this market in our country. These are mainly food markets for the local people. Mainly vegetables and fruits are sold in these mobile local markets but, you can also find olive, fish and some animal products such as cheese, egg, sausage, salami, etc. Textile products are also sold in these markets. In this study, the structure of a mobile public bazaar is analysed. Organic waste potential of this bazaar is determined and some advices for evaluation possibilities of this organic waste are given.