
About 80 percent of all waste in Israel is dumped, polluting the groundwater and diminishing the air quality. Efforts to increase the rate of recycling have so far seen little success. Over the past five years, the amount of waste recycled instead of dumped has increased from 18 percent to just 22 percent. By comparison, the European Union recycles 34 percent of its waste.
The Ministry of Environmental Protection...
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