Country behind on climate targets, has increased subsidies for fossil fuels, has the lowest level of renewable energy in 38-member club, highest rate of threatened native mammals

Draft rules to discourage sending organic waste from kitchens and gardens to landfills while incentivizing local authorities to separate at source, build recycling facilities

Rotem Amfert and parent company the ICL Group guarantee to clean up decades of waste caused by phosphorus mining, rehabilitate soil and water

Environment minister orders work on Good Samaritan facility in Mishor Adumim frozen, accuses Finance Ministry officials of issuing tender for project behind her back

Gila Gamliel has halted moves to build controversial waste-to-energy plants, and activists hope she will adopt European approach of reduction, reuse and recycling

Nation still ranks fairly well in Yale University report, but scores particularly badly on biodiversity and habitat

Gila Gamliel reexamining entire ministry strategy on waste treatment, including controversial plans, recently approved by planners, to spend NIS 2.8 billion on incineration

Government plans to invest NIS 2.8 billion of an estimated NIS 4 billion cost of the facilities, part of Environment Ministry's strategic plan to reduce polluting landfill

Uptick in enforcement follows report about 28% rise in emissions of known or suspected carcinogenic pollutants as result of illegal refuse burning

Israeli company UBQ Materials takes unsorted trash and converts it into plastic pellets, and just released recycling bins in Virginia, their first product to the public