Dear Member,

In the letter dated 03.12.2025 and numbered 15967, sent to our Chamber from the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Türkiye,

As you are aware, the Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change has designed a Deposit Management System within the framework of circular economy policies, and the Turkish Environment Agency (TÜÇA) has been authorized for this purpose.

The Deposit Management System is a system that ensures the controlled and orderly collection of products and packaging that could pollute the environment, with consumer participation, instead of these products being discarded uncontrollably into the environment, by charging a specific deposit fee.

In Türkiye, the goal is to recover approximately 25 billion single-use packaging materials annually under the Mandatory Deposit Management System. Within this framework, the use of a unique, non-replicable barcode system and the Deposit Management System (DMS) logo on glass, PET, and aluminum packaging for beverages produced by packaging manufacturers has been made mandatory. In this process, packaging will no longer be offered to the market without the DMS logo; packaging manufacturers, as the first step in this system, will produce their packaging in accordance with this system.

However, obligations regarding the collection of these packages have also been imposed on points of sale. According to Law No. 6585 on the Regulation of Retail Trade, all shopping centers, large stores, and chain stores are obligated to install Deposit Return Machines in at least one branch in the district where they are located, and at least one branch in the city center, totaling 20% of their total number of branches throughout Turkey, with the following percentages: 5% in 2025, 5% in 2026, and 10% in 2027.

Detailed information can be accessed via the link below: https://www.tuca.gov.tr/uploaded_files/2025/09/ZorunluDepozitoUsulEsaslar.pdf

The system has been launched in 7 pilot provinces (excluding Sakarya, Erzurum, Mersin, Gaziantep, Samsun, Izmir and Konya); and in order to ensure the safe and sustainable operation of the system, TÜÇA has decided to provide 2000 deposit return machines free of charge to chain/local stores and their branches in the remaining 74 provinces.

TÜÇA aims to distribute deposit return machines to store chains located in various provinces, primarily to local markets.

In this context, it is necessary to identify the locations of companies requesting deposit return machines, primarily local chains, process these locations using the format provided in the attachment, and submit them to our Chamber.

This will be submitted to the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey ( to elif.serdengecti@tobb.org.tr ) by December 13, 2025.

Best regards.