Plastic

Trump reverses plastic straw ban

President Trump has decided to cancel the Biden administration's order to end all plastic straw purchases by 2027.

Are plastic straws truly the planet's biggest enemy?

​​​​​​​Seriously! How can it be that university students don’t understand the level of Hamas barbarism yet fight to stop plastic straws?

Israel cancels tax on disposables

Finance Minister touts move as campaign promise government has fulfilled, while Environmental Protection Minister protests the move.

Canceling disposables tax? Environmentalists cry foul

Environment experts are warning against Smotrich's proposed plan to cancel the tax imposed by former Finance Minister, Liberman.

Study:

Israel's coastline contaminated with 2 tons of microplastics

Israel's most polluted beaches are in Tel Aviv and Hadera, study finds.

Coalition approves ban on disposables at beaches

Hof Hacarmel's order banning disposables on beaches is approved by coalition as haredi MK warns of dangerous precedent in lawmaking.

Who did the Finance Ministry consult before taxing disposables?

'What we're hearing here is simply insane,' Shas MK Azoulay says at Finance Committee meeting.

Haredi MK: 'You're killing businesses, who will repay them?'

At Finance Committee meeting, questions arise regarding new tax on disposables. 'The entire process was incorrect and wrong.'

'Disposables tax' to cost yeshivas 14 million annually

Haredi MK Maklev's office finds disposable 'tax' will cost yeshivas over a million shekel per month.

Use of disposables expected to drop 40% after prices rise

'Israel is addicted to plastic disposables, and it's time to wean off of them,' Environmental Protection Min. says.

Price of plastic disposables to rise

Environmental Protection Ministry, Finance Ministry, agree to tax import and manufacture of plastic disposables.

Cost of plastics have jumped 40%

Israeli cleantech startup, UBQ Materials, has developed a groundbreaking technology converting residual waste into a plastic substitute.

Tel Aviv coastline third most plastic-polluted in Mediterranean

The World Wildlife Fund report lists Israel in third place in producing plastic waste, behind only Turkey and Spain.

Yerkin Tatishev’s Kusto buys Israel’s largest plaster producer

Paint giant Tambour, a division of Kusto Group, completed the $5.5m purchase of Geves Gesher, Israel’s largest domestic plaster manufacturer

Does your bottled water contain microplastics?

Tests on more than 250 bottles from 11 leading brands worldwide reveal widespread contamination from plastic debris.