Friday, August 7, 2009

Recycling in Israel

For all of you out there in Israel who have some environmental conscience, I have required two tips on how to get rid of stuff that is not accounted for as household garbage.

Snunit Recycling (mostly Hebrew website) has stations in all of the large cities and they accept all kinds of appliances and electronics, but it does not seem like they take on fridges, and I guess that has to do with the cooling liquids that need to be taken care of in a certain way.

Agora is a website (Hebrew) where you can announce stuff that you want to get rid of, and I assume that many of the people in the "garbage business" keep a good eye on this site. Only rule is that the items are offered without any charge. However, here you cannot be certain that the item is not stripped and the leftovers dumped in the nature.

If any of the readers have more tips, please make a comment. Fridges still seem like something no one except the guys in station wagons want to take on, and as far as I am concerned, I would feel more comfortable leaving the next old fridge to some acknowledged station than just out in the street...

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