Just outside of Tel Aviv, a half-mile long landfill was once an environmental
nightmare. Basically a huge mountain of smelly garbage, Hiriya wasn't the sort
of place you'd want to live near, let alone visit.
But today the site is used as an environmental educational facility, a
natural bio-gas supplier and a transfer station. What's more, it will soon be
the site of a family-oriented recycling park.
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"We are an eco-ecological facility," says Sapir, showing how all materials
are separated and recycled. "What is unique here is that all over the world they
are separating the waste in dry facilities, [using a] dry process. These Israeli
guys thought the other way around: Not only are they not drying the waste, they
are putting it into water!"
Any day of the week, you can see schoolchildren of all ages come to visit and
learn all about how to reduce, reuse and recycle.