Frequently Asked Questions & Regulatory Knowledge Base

MoTAT is the official GPS-tracked logistics system of the TR Ministry of Environment for monitoring hazardous waste (16 02 13*, 16 02 15*, 20 01 35*, 16 06 01*) from origin to licensed recovery facility via mobile verification codes. Katkısan Electronic Waste (İz Geri Dönüşüm - Tax ID: 4831355596) is fully integrated into MoTAT with Company License ATA-34-290 and TSE-approved Vehicle License ATA-34-290/TA-01 (ATK3423000945 - Plate: 34 HER 112). Once your facility creates a transport request on EÇBS, our vehicle verifies the pickup code on-site and completes official mass-balance acceptance upon arrival at our İkitelli OSB plant (Permit No: 1150345).

The EÇBS / MoTAT workflow operates in four steps: 1) The waste-generating company (or its environmental consultant) logs into ecbs.cevre.gov.tr and opens the Waste Management Application (ATYÖN / MoTAT). 2) Under "Create Transport Request", select the EWC waste code (e.g., 16 02 13* or 16 06 01*) and estimated weight. 3) Select "İz Geri Dönüşüm ve Nakliyat Tic. Ltd. Şti." (Facility No: 1150345 / Tax ID: 4831355596) as the Processing Facility and our MoTAT license (ATA-34-290) as the Carrier. 4) Using the system-generated UATF Transport Number, our vehicle loads the shipment and confirms exact weighed tonnage upon arrival at our İkitelli OSB facility.

Pursuant to Article 20 of Turkish Environmental Law No. 2872 and the WEEE Management Regulation, delivering hazardous or non-hazardous electronic waste to individuals or businesses without an Environmental Permit and License triggers severe administrative fines (escalating annually into millions of TRY) as well as criminal prosecution under Articles 181-182 of the Turkish Penal Code. Partnering with Katkısan Electronic Waste under R12 Permit No: 1150345 eliminates 100% of your environmental compliance risk.

Under the Turkish Waste Management Regulation, codes marked with an asterisk (*) denote Hazardous Waste, while unmarked codes denote Non-Hazardous Waste. 16 02 13* covers discarded equipment containing hazardous components (leaded solder, mercury, cadmium, CRT/LCD displays, polychlorinated capacitors); 16 02 14 covers non-hazardous IT, server and telecom equipment; 16 02 15* covers hazardous components removed from discarded equipment; and 16 02 16 covers non-hazardous removed printed circuit boards (PCBs), metals, cables and plastics. Our R12 facility (Permit No: 1150345) is authorized to process all four codes.

Listed under Chapter 20 (Municipal, Institutional and Commercial Separately Collected Fractions) of Annex-4, code 20 01 35* covers discarded electrical and electronic equipment containing hazardous components (LCD/LED/CRT monitors, televisions, office PCs, printers and UPS units containing leaded boards or capacitors) and requires MoTAT transport. Code 20 01 36 covers non-hazardous commercial and office electronic appliances. Katkısan officially accepts 20 01 35*, 20 01 36 and 20 01 21* under R12 Permit No: 1150345 and MoTAT License ATA-34-290.

A basic Collection-Sorting Facility (TAT) certificate only permits sorting packaging or non-hazardous scrap metal. By contrast, an R12 WEEE Processing Facility License issued by the TR Ministry of Environment (Facility No: 1150345 - Approval: 58003700-150/E.3166) is the highest-tier technical authorization permitting industrial dismantling, mechanical shredding, hazardous substance decontamination and precious/base metal recovery across both hazardous and non-hazardous e-waste streams.

For every corporate shipment we deliver: 1) EÇBS / MoTAT National Waste Transport Form (UATF) and Mass-Balance Acceptance Confirmation, 2) Corporate Process Tracking & ESG Recovery Report, 3) Official e-Invoice and statutory financial documentation, 4) Wet-signed and stamped Official Asset Write-Off / Disposal Certificate, and 5) ISO 15713 Certificate of Destruction (DCMS-23-2310-İZD) alongside our 19-permit compliance dossier.

Electronic waste and PCB valuation depends on board grade (Grade 1 telecom/base-station boards, server motherboards, ceramic/gold CPUs and RAM modules; Grade 2 PC motherboards, PLC automation and medical boards; Grade 3 power supplies, display boards and transformer units) and their recoverable gold (Au), silver (Ag), palladium (Pd) and copper (Cu) assay density, transparently indexed per kilogram to daily London Metal Exchange (LME) rates.

We purchase printed circuit boards (PCBs), server and PC motherboards, CPUs, RAM, GPU and network cards, telecom switchboards, PLC and CNC industrial automation units, inverter drives, dry-type transformers, electric motors, generators, uninterruptible power supplies (UPS), non-infectious medical imaging/laboratory analyzers, ATMs, POS terminals, fiscal cash registers and barcode hardware.

Every batch entering our İkitelli OSB plant is tracked end-to-end from calibrated digital weighbridge reception through dismantling and mechanical separation in synchronization with EÇBS / MoTAT. Upon completion of assay and sorting, we issue an Official Disposal & Asset De-Registration Certificate plus a detailed material recovery report for your sustainability and ISO 14001 audits.

Under the Turkish Ministry of Treasury and Finance VAT General Implementation Communiqué, deliveries of scrap metal, electronics and recyclable waste are subject to statutory VAT exemption or partial VAT withholding provisions depending on material classification. Operating as İz Geri Dönüşüm ve Nakliyat Ticaret Limited Şirketi (İkitelli Tax Office / Tax ID: 4831355596), we execute all payments via official bank transfer backed by e-Invoice documentation 100% compliant with CPA and Sworn Financial Advisor (YMM) audits.

Through R12 mechanical dismantling, granulation and separation, we recover high-purity electrolytic copper (Cu), gold (Au), silver (Ag), palladium (Pd), tin (Sn), nickel (Ni), aluminum (Al) heat sinks, silicon transformer steel, stainless steel (Fe) and engineering plastics (ABS, PC, FR4), returning critical raw materials to domestic and circular manufacturing.

IT Asset Disposition (ITAD) is the secure, environmentally compliant retirement of corporate servers, laptops, desktops and network hardware that have completed their technological lifecycle or 3-to-5-year depreciation schedule. Katkısan records the make, model and serial number of every unit and issues an Official Fixed-Asset De-Registration & Disposal Certificate under Ministry R12 Permit No: 1150345, enabling your finance team to write off hardware cleanly from accounting ledgers.

Under our KIOSCERT-accredited ISO 15713:2009 certificate (Doc No: DCMS-23-2310-İZD), we sign a mutual Corporate Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) prior to pickup. Hard drives (HDD), enterprise SSDs, NVMe modules and LTO backup tapes are scanned by serial number and physically pulverized in high-torque industrial shredders under 24/7 uninterrupted HD CCTV recording. Magnetic platters and NAND flash dies are reduced to millimeter fragments, rendering forensic recovery impossible and providing full compliance for KVKK Law No. 6698, BDDK, ISO 27001 and EU GDPR audits.

Standard OS formatting, file deletion or software overwriting cannot reliably sanitize bad sectors on magnetic HDDs or over-provisioned wear-leveling blocks inside solid-state NAND flash controllers (SSD/NVMe), leaving residual corporate data vulnerable to forensic extraction. Under the Turkish KVKK Regulation on Deletion, Destruction or Anonymization of Personal Data, physical industrial shredding is the definitive legal safeguard for end-of-life storage media.

Yes. Our TSE TS 13615 certified (34-HYB-22350 / Registry: 4236735) and OHS-trained engineering crew visits bank headquarters, commercial plazas and colocation data centers to dismantle rack/blade servers, SAN/NAS storage arrays, core switches, structured data cabling (17 04 11) and UPS systems without disrupting building infrastructure, transporting all assets in tamper-evident sealed containers under Chain-of-Custody protocols.

Absolutely. Representatives from your Information Security (CISO), IT, Internal Audit or Legal departments are welcome to witness the entire shredding operation live at our İkitelli OSB facility (Dersan Sanayi Sitesi A Blok No:1/130 Başakşehir/Istanbul). Upon completion, we deliver the serialized barcode inventory, wet-signed ISO 15713 Destruction Certificate and continuous HD CCTV video archive.

Brand product destruction permanently eliminates quality-control rejects (QC Reject), warranty returns (DOA/RMA), obsolete inventory, R&D prototypes and court-seized counterfeit goods so they can never leak into unauthorized secondary markets or online marketplaces. At our ISO 15713 (DCMS-23-2310-İZD) and R12 (1150345) licensed plant, products are fed with their packaging and brand logos into high-torque dual-shaft shredders, making refurbishment or resale 100% impossible.

Under Turkish Customs Law No. 4458 and the Customs Liquidation Regulation, imported goods that fail TAREKS/CE conformity, exceed bonded storage limits or suffer transit damage are approved for destruction upon submission of our R12 Environmental Permit (1150345) and MoTAT License (ATA-34-290) to the relevant Customs Directorate. Goods are transported in our customs-sealed vehicle (34 HER 112) and shredded before Customs Inspection Officers and your customs broker, concluding with an Official Customs Destruction Protocol.

Pursuant to Article 278 of Turkish Tax Procedure Law No. 213 (VUK), commercial inventory that loses market value due to damage, expiration or technological obsolescence can be expensed and deducted from Corporate Tax / VAT obligations when destroyed at a licensed recovery facility under the supervision of a Tax Office Valuation Committee or Sworn Financial Advisor (YMM). Our EÇBS/MoTAT acceptance records, weighbridge tickets, CCTV footage and signed destruction minutes serve as complete statutory audit evidence.

Yes. Counterfeit merchandise seized under Industrial Property Law No. 6769, confidential industrial design prototypes and retired injection/stamping molds are physically destroyed at our İkitelli OSB plant in the presence of a Notary Public, trademark attorneys and corporate auditors under HD video recording, documented via a notarized Official Destruction Minute.

Whenever destroyed commercial inventory contains electronic appliances, IT hardware, small household devices, cables, motors or metallic housings, the copper, aluminum, steel and PCB fractions separated after shredding (EWC: 16 02 16, 16 02 14, 20 01 40) are valued transparently at daily LME metal rates. That scrap recovery credit is offset against operational shredding costs, frequently generating net financial recovery for your company.

Unstripped scrap cable pricing per kilogram is determined by the net electrolytic copper weight percentage inside the gross insulated cable weight (copper recovery yield) multiplied by real-time London Metal Exchange (LME) copper rates. Bright bare copper and heavy single-core NYA cables yield 70%-99.9% copper, multi-core NYM/NYY and armored power cables yield 42%-68%, and Cat6 data, telecom and control panel harnesses yield 28%-45%. For high-tonnage lots, we run a transparent sample granulation assay and report exact copper yield.

Burning cables to strip insulation releases carcinogenic dioxins and furans into the atmosphere and constitutes a severe environmental crime under Environmental Law No. 2872 and the Turkish Penal Code. At Katkısan’s R12 (Permit No: 1150345) and Zero Waste (TS/34/B3/16/831) certified plant, EWC 17 04 11 and 17 04 01 cables are never burned; instead, rotary granulators, vibratory air-gravity tables and high-voltage electrostatic separators recover 99.9% pure copper granules with zero emissions.

Yes. Ultra-fine capillary data/LAN cables, telecom switchboard looms, PLC cabinet harnesses, automotive wiring harnesses and molded PC power cords—which conventional stripping blades cannot process—are cleanly separated without copper loss in our electrostatic separation line and purchased at true copper content value.

Uninterruptible power supply (UPS) batteries, electric forklift traction batteries, telecom gel batteries and starter accumulators contain toxic lead (Pb) and corrosive sulfuric acid, classifying them as Mandatory Hazardous Waste under EWC 16 06 01* and 20 01 33*. Backed by our TÜMAKÜDER Authorization (Tax ID: 4831355596), MoTAT License (ATA-34-290 / ATA-34-290/TA-01) and TSE ADR Vehicle Certificate (ATK3423000945 - 34 HER 112), we collect waste batteries in leak-proof containers with full UATF compliance and LME lead valuation.

Yes. Our TSE TS 13615 (34-HYB-22350) certified technical crew safely disconnects VRLA/AGM dry-cell UPS battery cabinets inside bank, hospital and data center power rooms using insulated tooling, and loads 500-1,500 kg steel-cased traction forklift batteries at factories onto our licensed fleet. Under R12 Permit No: 1150345, we also purchase retired complete UPS power units and rectifiers in the same pickup.

Katkısan Electronic Waste is the registered corporate brand of "İz Geri Dönüşüm ve Nakliyat Ticaret Limited Şirketi" (İkitelli Tax Office / Tax ID: 4831355596 / TSE Corporate Registry: 4236735), one of Turkey’s leading Ministry-licensed recovery centers. Our headquarters, R12 processing plant and ISO 15713 destruction facility operate at İkitelli Organized Industrial Zone, Dersan Sanayi Sitesi A Blok No:1/130, 34490 Başakşehir / ISTANBUL, TURKEY.

Yes. Under our Open Facility Policy, we enforce zero minimum weight thresholds for direct drop-offs at our İkitelli OSB plant. Whether you are an individual technician bringing a single motherboard, laptop or a few kilograms of cable/batteries, or a multinational manufacturer delivering hundreds of tons of industrial decommissioning scrap, every delivery receives transparent weighing and official documentation.

From our İkitelli OSB hub, our MoTAT-licensed fleet (ATA-34-290) provides same-day free site appraisal and vehicle dispatch across Istanbul (İkitelli, Tuzla, Dudullu, Beylikdüzü, Hadımköy, Maslak, Levent, Ataşehir), Kocaeli (Gebze GOSB, Dilovası, Çayırova), Tekirdağ (Çorlu, Çerkezköy, Ergene), Bursa and Sakarya. For corporate factories, banks and data centers in Ankara, İzmir, Adana, Mersin, Gaziantep, Kayseri, Konya and all 81 provinces of Turkey, we execute scheduled nationwide tonnage logistics.

To spare corporate procurement and EHS teams from filling out slow web forms and waiting days for callbacks, our website runs on a Formless Direct Communication architecture. Simply send photos and estimated quantities of your e-waste, PCBs, IT servers, cables or batteries to our corporate WhatsApp line (+90 532 514 47 62), and our appraisal engineers will return an LME-indexed quote within minutes.

Our İkitelli OSB facility (Dersan Sanayi Sitesi A Blok No:1/130 Başakşehir/Istanbul) operates Monday through Friday from 09:00 to 18:00 (closed Saturdays and Sundays). Our industrial loading bay accommodates passenger cars, panel vans and heavy articulated trucks with calibrated digital weighing and rapid unloading.