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The Dudaim dump site is the biggest landfill in Israel, near the Bedouin city of Rahat in southern Israel, August 10, 2016. (Yaniv Nadav/Flash90)
December 2, 2025, 5:52 pm
Drowning in garbage: Council heads warn waste sector facing ‘systematic collapse’
160 mayors appeal to Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, saying local authorities can’t cope, criminals taking over, infrastructure poor and outdated
By Sue Surkes
An undated photograph of the Hiriya waste sorting facility, near Tel Aviv. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90).
October 8, 2025, 10:30 pm
Truckers’ dispute over long lines at landfill site threatens waste collection
Dan region waste treatment chief assails Environmental Protection Ministry, says it warned about a ‘national landfill crisis, congestion, delays, but they did nothing’
By Sue Surkes
Agricultural waste. (Matauw, iStock by Getty Images)
December 5, 2024, 10:22 am
Israel to get 1st facility to recycle organic waste, produce gas and fertilizer
Discount Bank, environment ministry to fund plant near Gaza border that will use sealed containers of microbes to break down 200 tons of household and agricultural waste annually
By Sue Surkes
A textile dump at Old Fadama in Accra, Ghana, October 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)
November 26, 2024, 6:55 pm
Most used clothes deposited in textile recycling bins end up in Africa — report
Greenpeace Israel used GPS tags to track journeys of 24 discarded garments. Eleven joined billions of items dumped in developing countries. None were made into new clothes
By Sue Surkes
A home destroyed by Hamas terrorists on October 7 in southern Israel's Kibbutz Kfar Aza is seen on October 15, 2023. (Edi Israel/Flash90)
December 10, 2023, 10:22 am
Turn Gaza border area into model of sustainable development, green organization urges
Advocacy group Adam Teva V’Din presents roadmap for rebuilding more greenly, as government set to approve framework for 5-year plan to rehabilitate southern border communities
By Sue Surkes
A traffic jam at the entrance to a gas station in Jerusalem, on March 11, 2022. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)
May 31, 2023, 6:52 pm
OECD slaps Israel with poor marks on environmental performance in new report
Country behind on climate targets, has increased subsidies for fossil fuels, has the lowest level of renewable energy in 38-member club, highest rate of threatened native mammals
By Sue Surkes
An illustrative photo of organic waste for composting. (Maerzkind via iStock by Getty Images)
October 4, 2022, 5:30 am
In new push, government hopes to get Israelis to sort food waste from other trash
Draft rules to discourage sending organic waste from kitchens and gardens to landfills while incentivizing local authorities to separate at source, build recycling facilities
By Sue Surkes
Phosphogypsum waste at Rotem Amfert in the Negev, southern Israel. (Environmental Protection Ministry)
December 22, 2021, 10:21 pm
Polluting company agrees to clean up in return for extension of Negev concession
Rotem Amfert and parent company the ICL Group guarantee to address decades of waste caused by phosphorus mining, rehabilitate soil and water
By Sue Surkes
Buildings under construction in Mishor Adumim, an Israeli industrial zone adjacent to the settlement of Ma'ale Adumim, in the West Bank, east of Jerusalem, on June 16, 2020. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)
February 14, 2021, 9:27 pm
PM agrees to review controversial West Bank waste-to-energy plant plan
Environment minister orders work on Good Samaritan facility in Mishor Adumim frozen, accuses Finance Ministry officials of issuing tender for project behind her back
By Sue Surkes
Illustrative: Solid waste is sorted and separated at a facility next to the Hiriya Landfilll near Tel Aviv on November 11, 2008. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)
June 16, 2020, 1:12 pm
With no time to waste, new environment minister signals support for recycling
Gila Gamliel has halted moves to build controversial waste-to-energy plants, and activists hope she will adopt European approach of reduction, reuse and recycling
By Sue Surkes
Two foxes peer out of the vegetation in the Jerusalem area, May 27, 2020. (Dudu Ben Or, Israel Nature and Parks Authority)
June 8, 2020, 1:17 am
Israel slips to 29th worldwide in biennial environmental performance index
Nation still ranks fairly well in Yale University report, but scores particularly badly on biodiversity and habitat
By Sue Surkes
Sorting of plastic waste. (BizTV screenshot)
June 1, 2020, 10:14 pm
New environment minister takes fresh look at contentious waste incinerator plan
Gila Gamliel reexamining entire ministry strategy on waste treatment, including controversial plans, recently approved by planners, to spend NIS 2.8 billion on incineration
By Sue Surkes
Sorting of plastic waste. (BizTV screenshot)
May 13, 2020, 4:18 pm
Three waste-to-energy plants greenlighted for central Israel
Government plans to invest NIS 2.8 billion of an estimated NIS 4 billion cost of the facilities, part of Environment Ministry’s strategic plan to reduce polluting landfill
By Sue Surkes
A dump in Kafr Manda in northern Israel, whose owner was fined nearly $240,000 by the Environmental Protection Ministry for illegal burning of waste, January 14, 2020. (Environmental Protection Ministry)
January 14, 2020, 12:17 pm
Environment Ministry fines business NIS 825,300 for illegal burning of waste
Uptick in enforcement follows report about 28% rise in emissions of known or suspected carcinogenic pollutants as result of illegal refuse burning
By Sue Surkes
UBQ Materials has developed a technology that takes unsorted household waste -- from banana peels to dirty diapers to used yogurt containers and cardboard -- and converts it into a bio-based thermoplastic -- a plastic substitute (Courtesy)
September 4, 2019, 9:25 am
Sabra hummus founder says plastic is the perfect way to upcycle waste
Israeli company UBQ Materials takes unsorted trash and converts it into plastic pellets; it just released recycling bins in Virginia, its first product for the public
By Melanie Lidman
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