Israel

National Waste Strategy

Executive

Strategy

Passed in 2021

The objective of this document is to enable make the waste sector more sustainable by 2030 and enable a circular economy by 2050. The strategy addresses treatment of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) in a comprehensive manner and includes the following key abatement measures in relation to sources of GHG emissions.
• Transition from 80% of waste landfilling in 2020, to only 20% by 2030;
• Zero landfilling of untreated organic waste and paper and cardboard by 2030;
• All active landfills will be sealed, and methane collection and destruction/utilization systems will be installed, so that methane collection will amount to no less than 50% of total methane production in the landfill.

Documents

Link to explainer (English)
Link to text (Hebrew)