:תוצאות חודשי אלול תשרי
1590 - מיכלי משקה מוחזרים וממוחזרים
483 ₪ התקבלו לצדקה
:חלוקת הכסף החודש
100 ₪ - עמותת קו לחיים
200 ₪ - עזרה לנזקקים
193 ₪ - קניית מצרכי מזון עבור עמותת שכן טוב

Results for Elul-Tishrei

1590 cans and bottles recycled,

483 Israeli shekels received and distributed.

This was how the project got started five years ago.

The goal of the project is to increase the level of recycling by the residents by increasing environmental awareness. Collection of the accumulated bottles and cans took place once a month from in front of the residents' homes by students of the "Orot Hazoreim" Environmental High School Yeshiva located on the Moshav. Today the residents bring their accumulated cans and bottles to my house where I collect, bag and count them. The recycling company' s truck then picks them up.

Steps in implementing the project consisted of:

1. Setting up a recycling team of
students from the yeshiva.
2. Learning about recycling in order
to increasing environmental awareness of the team.
3. Team meetings in order to work out
objectives and operation methods.
4. Increasing environmental
awareness and explaining the project to the residents of the
moshav.
5. Collection and feedback.
6. Publicizing the collection results
and percentage of participation each month.

Some views of our moshav.
Here is the view looking from the west from the top of valley toward the east. This was at the beginning of the summer.










Here is a view looking from the north toward the south. It is the end of the winter, beginning of spring. (March - April)

Rationale
It is well recognized today that land filling, no matter how environmentally safe, is not a long-term answer to Israel’s solid waste problem. Landfills “consume” large expanses of valuable land and are associated with both direct and indirect environmental and economic costs. Therefore, efforts are focusing on alternatives to land filling, such as recycling. (www.sviva.gov.il)

The Deposit Law on Beverage Containers came into force on October 1st, 2001. The law currently covers all beverage containers which are larger than 100 milliliters and smaller than 1.5 liters. Consumers pay a 25 agorot deposit on each beverage container they buy, which can then be reclaimed when the empty container is returned. (www.sviva.gov.il)

The law is only partially successful. Many people have not made returning beverage containers a part of their household routine. A number of reasons are sited for this. The collection of bottles from grocery stores is not uniform and smooth at all stores, and the number of automatic collection and refund machines is, at the moment, small. In addition, the deposit is low enough that many people are willing to forgo the necessary effort to reclaim it.

The project hopes to overcome these problems. First, by increasing awareness about the importance of recycling, and secondly, by making the routine of saving beverage containers "worth it", by increasing the incentive. The deposits reclaimed from the beverage containers are given to charity.

This blog is in the making as a result of the closing of Yahoo's Geocities, where the community recycling project had a page for over four years. The project has been up and running since Tevet 5765, ( January, 1995). Since its inception, we have recycled over 66,600 bottles and cans, and have distributed over 18,800 Israeli shekels to charity.

Moshav Hazoreim is a small (140 households), agricultural village located in the pastoral Lower Galilee region of Israel.
Being a Jewish religious community, the use of wine or grape juice is an integral part of the Sabbath and holiday rituals.Therefore every household has deposit bottles.
The incentive of money donated to charity in addition with increased environmental awareness of the importance of recycling attained by the residents , have been factors that have contributed to the success of the project.