Recycling

Israel needs a strategy to cut plastics industry's carbon footprint - opinion

The carbon footprint of Israel’s plastics industry includes around 500 manufacturers and exports approximately $2.6 billion annually.

 Plastic bottles on a beach, illustrative
 Trash and recycling bins in Jerusalem.

The trash of Jerusalem: Who sorts the garbage of Israel's capital?

 Concept of green finance flourishing businesses invest money and coins into sustainable ventures, nurturing growth of nature-friendly projects and ensuring prosperous future. green finance growth.

Building a circular economy: What Israel can learn from the US West Coast - opinion

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From the drawer to the store: A move that will transform Israel's jewelry industry


From life cycles to the lives of at-risk youth

MCE works closely with Shanti House, or “Beit Hashanti” in Hebrew, an organization that serves at-risk youth and youth in immediate danger.

An Israeli family sits on the steps outside their apartment building in Jerusalem, as they stay at home with their children during a nation-wide quarantine, on March 31, 2020.

Israeli finance firm secures $3m. for innovative recycling company

“The environmental and social impact of Alkemy’s project are far-reaching and essential for all of us."

Ecoams Planet's plastic bottle recycling solution

E-waste social enterprise prepares to weather second coronavirus wave

"We are very pleased to be considered an essential enterprise, especially in light of our workforce," the manager said.

Yishai Ben-Tov works at Ecology for a Protected Community in Misgav

Auto giant Daimler to test pioneering Israeli waste-to-plastic solution

The thermoplastic designed by UBQ, based in Kibbutz Tze’elim, was named last year as "the most climate-positive material on the planet."

UBQ CEO & co-founder UBQ co-founder and chief executive Jack (Tato) Bigio at the company's recycling facility

Travel store Rikushet unveils collection based on recycled materials

The line features Texapore Ecosphere technology

Clothes and women

Israeli 'rubber band' solution could reduce plastic bottle volume by 80%

A French-Israeli entrepreneur believes that recycling challenges posed by large quantities of plastic bottles could be significantly ameliorated with a rubber band.

Ecoams Planet's plastic bottle recycling solution

Tel Aviv schools to ban single-use plastics by end of year

Approximately 20,000 children eat lunch every day across the city's schools and daycare programs, according to the municipality, throwing away thousands of single-use plastics after each meal.

Plastic spoons and forks.

Unilever pledges to cut plastic production in half by 2025

The company announced its new target on Monday and will use no more than 386,000 tons of new plastic per year, down from 772,000 tons in 2018.

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Israeli company UBQ partners up with CVWMA, creates thermoplastic waste bins

CVWMA will be offering 2000 recycling bins made with the recycled UBQ Material.

Recycling bins made from UBQ thermoplastic, ordered by the State of Virginia

Are Israel’s plastic bottles being recycled?

The retirement of the plastic-bottle cages doesn’t mean plastic bottles aren’t being recycled.

Are Israel’s plastic bottles being recycled?