The municipality will build plants to recycle building waste.
The ministerial committee for Jerusalem affairs and Jerusalem Mayor Uri Lupolianski have decided to promote an extensive NIS 19 million program for the recycling of building waste. The program will include the construction of two recycling plants for building waste and the cleaning up of illegal dumps, which will be turned into forests.
The program will take two years. One recycling plant will be in north Jerusalem and the other in south. At the same time, enforcement of laws against illegal dumping will expanded and punishments for illegal dumping will be increased. Hebrew and Arabic educational programs will be launched in the city’s schools and community centers, and volunteers will be recruited.
The Jerusalem municipality will launch a campaign to explain the anti-dumping program and its goals in order to involve the city’s populations in it. A 24-hour rapid-response team will be established that will cooperate with the Israel Police and the Green Patrol. The team will conduct patrols and ambushes to discover the illegal dumping of building waste.
Published by Globes [online], Israel business news - www.globes.co.il - on September 10, 2007
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