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"Earth Poetica" by Beverly Barkat. Photo: Michael Amar.

New Jerusalem exhibit demonstrates how plastic is ‘suffocating Earth’

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“Warning: Plastic packets may be dangerous. Full stop.” This is the typical warning label on those small plastic packets of silica gel that are tossed into food packaging, shoe boxes, electronics wrapping and more. Not...
Disposable utensils. Credit: Pixabay.

Israel’s Technion to scrap throwaway cutlery for more sustainable alternatives

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In less than three months, on Oct. 1, the Technion‒Israel Institute of Technology will stop buying disposable utensils. The decision by Technion executive vice president and director general Professor Boaz Golany came after a lengthy...
Mounds of garbage disposed of outside the Palestinian village of Rammon on Dec. 8, 2014. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90.

With less law enforcement during coronavirus pandemic, PA continues to dump garbage

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While Israel was busy dealing with the coronavirus crisis, the Palestinian Authority continued to illegally dump garbage in Judea and Samaria, according to Israeli NGO Regavim. “Today’s technology allows us to gather very detailed data...