Compost use is advocated as Israeli landfills close

A group called the Forum for Integrated Solid Waste Management is trying the shift government policy away from incineration and wholesale landfilling towards source separation and composting of the waste stream, which is about 50 percent organics. In June, 1993, the Israeli government announced a plan to close about 400 landfills and establish three or four large regional state of the art landfills. So far about 135 landfills have closed, but many new unapproved sites have opened up or expanded on existing sites. Now that community opposition has prevented the opening of two of the main sites, at Dudaim in the south and Talya …