Ankara Metropolitan started food production for stray animals

Ankara Metropolitan Municipality took action for the first time in Turkey to produce food with a daily capacity of 3 tons.

Ankara Metropolitan Municipality continues to carry out exemplary saving-oriented works in Turkey by preventing food waste. The Metropolitan Municipality, which continues to stand by stray animals with the understanding that "every life is precious in the capital", broke new ground in Turkey and pressed the button for food production with a daily capacity of 3 tons. The Department of Health Affairs started to produce food by recycling surplus foodstuffs in the facility established in Sincan Temporary Animal Care Home and Rehabilitation Center.

ABB will save 3.5 million liras a year by producing its own food

The food obtained in the facility, which started to operate with a daily production capacity of 1 ton in the first stage, will be used to feed stray animals in the capital. The Department of Health Affairs aims to save 3.5 million liras a year thanks to the food produced from the recycling of food.

"One of the largest food production projects in Turkey"

Stating that they have implemented one of the largest formula production projects in Turkey with a daily production capacity of 3 tons, Seyfettin Aslan, Head of Health Affairs Department, made the following statements:

"Restaurant leftovers are always on the agenda for feeding stray animals, but it is not always possible to separate objects such as plastic forks, knives, toothpicks and cigarette butts from the food collected in practice. This is why it is important for large institutions and organizations to make use of surplus food, which is called boiler bottom. As Ankara Metropolitan Municipality, we have established this facility in order to utilize the leftovers from the bottom of the boiler. At the same time, we cooperate with the Public Bread Factory to collect non-standard bread and dry bread that cannot be sold. In the first stage, we started trial production with 1 ton per day. Thanks to our own food production, we will save 3.5 million liras a year and use this amount to meet other needs of street animals."

Call to restaurants, cafes, public institutions and organizations and food factories

Aslan called on all private and public institutions and organizations, from restaurants to cafes, and food production factories to give their food waste to the Metropolitan Municipality.