Israel’s only remaining recycling plant for plastic bottles, which won an industry prize, is set to close because it cannot compete with lower production costs overseas, the Marker business daily reports.
Recent years have seen an increase in the number of bottles for recycling and a growth in the quantities sent abroad, particularly to Turkey, for processing.
A neighborhood bottle recycling cage. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
Aviv Recycling Industries, a private family industry which has been operating for 25 years in the Negev, in southern Israel, has already laid off 30 of its 70 workers, and workdays have been cut, the factory’s director Yaron Mizrahi told Army Radio.
Mizrahi said the company had been in talks with government ministries for two years but that now “we’re done, we’ve reached the stage where we’ve reached the limit of our ability.” The company was losing millions of shekels each year.
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