Trash

UN begins clearing wartime landfill burying Gaza City market

Alessandro Mrakic, head of the UNDP Gaza Office, estimated the volume of the dump to be more than 300,000 cubic meters (390,000 cubic yards) and 13 meters (14 yards) high.

PALESTINIANS WALK near a landfill, in Gaza City, February 11, 2026.
 Fire at illegal trash dumping ground caused dangerous air pollution level in Binyamin region of the West Bank on August 7, 2023.

Trash burning in Palestinian towns poses severe health risk to nearby Israelis, local leaders claim

 Fire at illegal trash dumping ground caused dangerous air pollution level in Binyamin region of the West Bank, on August 7, 2023.

Katz says Palestinian trash burning nat'l security threat, okays rules for confiscating vehicles

 Fire at illegal trash dumping ground caused dangerous air pollution level in Binyamin region of the West Bank, on August 7, 2023.

Palestinian trash burning is a national security threat, ministers Katz, Smotrich declare


China pulls decade of rubbish from park that inspired sci-fi film 'Avatar'

The Zhangjiajie park is a UNESCO heritage site that provided inspiration for the scenery in director James Cameron's 2009 sci-fi film.

 A view of Zhangjiajie National Forest Park in China's southern Hunan province May 10, 2004.

Cat-sized rats plague Britain's second largest city as 17,000 tonnes of trash pile in streets

Residents report the trash pile ups have led to rats the size of "small cats" invading homes and destroying cars.

A woman covers her nose as she walks past a pile of rubbish as refuse workers strike over job losses in Birmingham, Britain September 12, 2017.

The trash of Jerusalem: Who sorts the garbage of Israel's capital?

Jerusalemites have several bins for sorting trash and recycling. But does this even matter, or does all the rubbish end up being mashed together and then sorted in Atarot?

 Trash and recycling bins in Jerusalem.

Waste not want not: Biofuels can be developed from organic household waste - study

This new biofuel would have several advantages, namely that the emissions produced from these biofuels contain significantly fewer harmful chemicals.

 AN ISRAELI company is turning the contents of your trash can into clean energy.

Israel is flooded with trash. Who will take care of it?

The 7th Annual Waste management Conference in Memory of Danny Sternberg, produced by the Dan Region Association of Towns for Sanitation and Waste Disposal will take place on Tuesday.

 Hiriya Recycling Park

Aerial surveys show US landfills are major source of methane emissions

Study finds over half of US landfills are super-emitting methane sources, suggesting targeted action for climate change mitigation.

 Palestinian firemen extinguish a fire at a landfill in Juhr al-Deek, southeast of Gaza City, September 3, 2023.

Food Rescuers: Jerusalemites helping save edibles from the trash heap

The produce is sifted through by teams of enthused volunteers before being shipped out to various locations around Jerusalem – west and east – where locals can lay their hands on fresh healthy food.

 VOLUNTEERS MERRILY dig into market cast-offs.

Artificial 'nose' detects spoiled food and reduces waste

South Korean researchers have now developed an energy-efficient computing-based chip with smell-sensing units that can detect food spoilage.

 Food organized in a refrigerator.

Space is full of 200 tons of garbage. Now what?

Space is filled with deadly rocket debris and tons of human waste.


Massive amounts of waste pulled from streams in Golan cleanup project

"The beauty of nature should be preserved, so we can enjoy a clean and well-kept environment, and protect the the delicacy between man and nature," the Kinneret Drainage and Streams Authority said.

Clean up efforts of dried riverbeds in the Golan resulted in more than 100 tons of trash collection.