Tel Aviv, May 21 -- Israel is planning the construction of a new facility for recovering energy from waste, to be located in Neot Hovav in the Negev.

Israel's Ministry of Environmental Protection, in cooperation with the Accountant General's Department of Finance, the Municipality of Beer Sheva, and the Neot Hovav Local Industrial Council, presented the environmental project to establish the first facility of its kind in Israel to recover energy from waste.

The project, which will be implemented through a PPP (public-private partnership) method, is expected to reduce landfilling in the Negev and form part of a sustainable solution for the waste of approximately 800,000 residents in the Beersheba metropolitan area. This is a strategic mo...