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Feb. 22, 2021
Israel is likely to face a severe shortage of landfill space within a year, according to the Environmental Protection Ministry.
The ministry, which presented this information to the National Planning and Building Council last week, warned that this shortage may well lead to trash being dumped illegally.
It added that is working with the Planning Administration to find additional landfill space.
The ministry’s presentation was part of a discussion by a subcommittee of the national council on a new strategic plan for handling waste. The council has to approve the plan, which the ministry prepared.
According to the ministry’s data, existing landfills will have a severe shortage of space by the middle of next year. The main reason is that the country’s largest dump, the Efaa landfill in the Negev, has almost exhausted its capacity. Once it is full, Israel will be short of space for almost 4,000 tons of trash a day – more than half the trash produced by