The waste of time: Municipal waste
A new Israeli plan to dispose of municipal waste will eventually include landfill sites, but not all the waste will be hauled away.
The Ministry of the Environment, which is implementing the new program, has already announced that some waste will not be collected and will be placed in containers at landfill sites to be disposed of.
The ministry says that a maximum of 10,000 cubic meters (1,500 cubic feet) of waste will go into the landfill each day.
The waste will then be sent to waste management companies for recycling.
Some of the waste from the landfill will then go to incinerators.
In the first phase, waste management will be handled by the city’s waste management division.
In the second phase, the waste management company will handle the final disposal of waste.
The waste will also be recycled by the municipal recycling corporation.
There will be a small amount of waste collected in the first five years from the municipal waste program, but it will be recycled and disposed of in a landfill, not a landfill site.
The Ministry of Environment has not announced a date for when the new waste program will be completed, but said that it is expected to be fully implemented by 2021.
According to the city, the first municipal waste sites will be set up in Beit Shemesh, Beit Hanina, Be’er Sheva, Beersheba, Hadera, Jerusalem, Kiryat Malachi, Nazareth, Ramallah and Safed.
In order to improve waste management, the ministry will also make public a program called “Shall We Collect” that aims to increase the awareness about municipal waste.
On Monday, a delegation from the Ministry of Health, the Ministry for Israel’s environment, the Jerusalem Municipality, the Israel Waste Management Association, the Israeli Association of Waste Management Companies, the Waste Management Authority of Israel and the Israel Ministry of Education visited the municipal wastewater treatment plant at the city of Ramat Gan.
The delegation also met with municipal authorities and waste management organizations to promote the new initiative.
“In the coming years, we will be able to collect waste from all sectors of society, including from our own citizens, and we will also begin to see the results,” said David Tov, director of the municipal sewage treatment plant.
The ministry is also looking at developing a waste-management program for the municipality’s municipal water treatment plant in the area of Kiryati.
The municipality is also trying to establish a waste management program for its wastewater treatment facility in the southern part of Jerusalem.
The municipal water system in Kiryatt will be converted into a waste disposal facility, and sewage and wastewater treatment plants will be built there.
The municipality has already started a waste collection program.
