Ministry of Defense is due to submit to the Supreme Court findings of environmental risk surveys by mid-June 2009. In the meantime, IUED has appeared before the Southern District Planning & Building Committee with objections to the deposit of construction plans.
This year's Good Deeds day brought in nearly 1,200 pieces of electronic waste - computers, moniotors, TVs and household appliances diverted from landfill and sent to reuse and recycling. This is almost double the quantity collected last year.
It's time for new approaches to packaging waste. IUED is calling for an Israeli packaging law based on models succesfully implemented in the European Union.
IUED has petitioned the High Court of Justice challenging the National Infrastructure Commission's decision to expand use of coal for electricity generation.
After a long struggle to find a land-based alternative to marine discharge of sewage from Israel’s most densely populated central region, the Shafdan's sewage sludge is to be made into organic fertilizer to benefit Israeli agriculture.
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