Environment

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SodaStream cleans up massive trash collection off the coast of Honduras

23.10.2018

Junk cleaned from the water will be turned into an art installation dedicated to “reducing consumption of single use plastic in all forms, including plastic cups, straws, bags and bottles.”

SodaStream’s “Holy Turtle” in action off the coast of Honduras. Source: Screenshot.

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Israelis develop a system for cleaning industrial pollution

Abigail Klein LeichmanIsrael21c15.10.2018

The two-step process uses lightly heated solvents to extract organic compounds, while simultaneously removing heavy metals with chelating agents.

The pilot PTE installation for cleaning polluted soil, sludge or sediment. Photo: Courtesy of (Israel21c).

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‘Plastic-bag’ law in Israel slashed bag waste in 2017

16.07.2018

Officials said the new regulation led to an 80 percent drop in the use of single-use grocery bags and saved more than 7,091 tons of non-recyclable plastic in just one year.

Shoppers in Osher Ad Supermarket branch in Talpiot, Jerusalem, on Nov. 12, 2017. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

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Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies

James DorseyBESA Center01.05.2018

Iran struggles with an environmental crisis

With agriculture the main culprit in Iran’s inefficient use of water, officials fear that the crisis will accelerate migration from the countryside to urban centers incapable of catering to the migrants, and in turn, increase popular discontent.

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