Friday, August 17, 2012

Jerusalem transforming trash into cash

Recycling carton at Mahane Yehuda Market













Rotten tomatoes might actually be responsible for ensuring that Jerusalem’s students have enough classrooms in the coming years.

As the city faces an exponential increase in the cost of trash disposal with the closure of the Abu Dis landfill, it is searching for creative ways to cut down on the amount of trash. A plan to sell recyclable materials to private companies means the boxes of rotten tomatoes at the Mahaneh Yehuda shuk have magically turned from trash into shekels.

Read more : http://www.jpost.com/Sci-Tech/Article.aspx?id=281391

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