Recycling facility at Hiriya, part of the Dan Region Association of Towns – Sanitation and Solid Waste Disposal

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This recycling facility does dirty MRF-ing — meaning that both recyclable and nonrecyclable trash (i.e. decomposing carrot tops) arrive in a single batch, and are then put through a wet process — where everything’s basically dunked in water to let the recyclables float to the top.

The process made me appreciate separate recycling bins — because while it’s true that technology exists to pull some recyclables out of the unseparated trash, that system is clearly highly inefficient and costly (water waste, energy waste — and forget trying to recycle paper).

The vast majority of Israeli homes do not have separate recycling bins.

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