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Waste Disposal Policy in Israel- Economic and Political Aspects
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: Received: 2 March 2024 / Approved: 4 March 2024 / Online: 5 March 2024 (14:58:52 CET)
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Cohen, E. The Waste Landfill Policy in Israel: Economic and Political Perspectives. Sustainability 2024, 16, 2791. Cohen, E. The Waste Landfill Policy in Israel: Economic and Political Perspectives. Sustainability 2024, 16, 2791.
Abstract
The consistent and continuous growth in the world’s population is creating many challenges for public policymakers in the different life areas, including dealing with the increasing amounts of waste that are generating problems involving air and land pollution and a shortage of land for waste disposal. This study presents the results of public policy on managing municipal waste, as manifested in the quantity and rate of waste collected throughout Israel in recent years and disposed of in the various landfills and in analysis of the political and economic factors affecting this policy. The study combines a quantitative and qualitative approach, where the quantitative study includes analysis of statistical data based on information from the Central Bureau of Statistics, the Ministry of Environmental Protection, the Ministry of Finance, and others, and the qualitative study relies on reading and analyzing primary documents of the different government ministries on Israel’s waste disposal policy and information in the media on this issue. The research findings attest to an increase in the amount of municipal waste dumped in Israel, a merely slight decrease in the rate of landfilling as a proportion of all municipal waste disposal, and a merely slight increase in the rate of municipal waste recycled in recent years. The research conclusions stress the effects of the landfill levy and the Cleanliness Maintenance Fund on one hand, and of the government instability in the Ministry of Environmental Protection, the positivist policy embraced by decision makers in the Ministry of Environmental Protection, and the power struggles between Israel’s different ministries on the other, as the respective economic and political factors affecting Israeli policy on municipal waste management.
Keywords
Waste Disposal; Municipal Waste; Environmental Quality; Public Policy; Recycling
Subject
Environmental and Earth Sciences, Waste Management and Disposal
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