On the Deposit Management System

Dear Members,

Within the scope of circular economy policies, the Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change has established the Deposit Management System, and for this purpose, the Turkey Environment Agency (TÜÇA) has been authorized. The Deposit Management System is a mechanism that ensures the controlled and organized collection of products and packaging that may pollute the environment, with consumer participation, by charging a specific deposit fee on the price of these products, instead of their uncontrolled release into the environment. In Turkey, the recovery of approximately 25 billion single-use packaging items annually is targeted under the Mandatory Deposit Management System. In this context, the use of a non-replicable special barcode system and the Deposit Management System (DYS) logo on the packaging of beverages in glass, PET, and aluminum containers produced by packaging manufacturers has been made mandatory.

In this process, packaging will no longer be supplied to the market without the DYS logo, and packaging manufacturers, as the primary stakeholders in this system, will produce their packaging in compliance with this system. Additionally, obligations have been imposed on sales points regarding the collection of the aforementioned packaging. Under Law No. 6585 on the Regulation of Retail Trade, all shopping malls as defined, large stores, and chain stores are required to install Deposit Return Machines in at least one branch in the district where their branch is located and at least one branch in the provincial center, provided that a minimum of 5% of their total branches nationwide in 2025, an additional 5% in 2026, and 10% in 2027, totaling 20%, are equipped with these machines. Further details can be accessed via the link provided 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, İzmir, and Konya). TÜÇA has decided to provide 2,000 deposit return machines free of charge to chain/local stores and branches in the remaining 74 provinces to ensure the secure and sustainable operation of the system. TÜÇA aims to distribute deposit return machines primarily to local supermarkets and store chains across the provinces.

In this context, it is necessary to share this matter with your relevant members, identify companies (prioritizing local chains) that require deposit return machines, process the locations in the attached format, and submit them to our Union (to elif.serdengecti@tobb.org.tr) by December 13, 2025.