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Item #2 (Advanced Level)

What’s in our Trash?

Vegetables, clothes, diapers, bags, papers, thousands of tons of waste are
thrown every day in Gush Dan. Twenty years ago (they) still stacked it
here on the mountain, after that all the waste was transferred to landfills,
but this monstrous plant is changing things. The sorting stations separate
home and industrial waste twenty four hours a day: organic trash, iron,
aluminum – go to recycling, but the real treasure here is the fuel embodied
in it. What (do they) actually do here? Let’s assume this is the amount of
waste from Gush Dan every day. Half of it comes here, gets sorted in
different ways, and a third of this amount is the RDF, mostly nylon, plastic
bags and papers. This shredded material is a fuel, and that’s worth money.
And if there’s such an efficient solution to separating waste at the end of
the pick-up line, why do we, the public, bother separating trash at home?
According to Ron Huldai this is unnecessary. The vast majority of waste in
Israel is still buried. And in the future, it seems, there will be no other
choice than finding different solutions for a more extensive recycling
industry.

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