Israel Recycling Law and Regulation

Collection and Disposal of Waste for Recycling Law, 1993

This law provides the principles and the legal framework for recycling in Israel. It authorizes local authorities, and obliges them, when required by the Minister of the Environment, to allocate sites for recycling centers and to install recycling facilities and containers. Municipalities are authorized to pass bylaws specifying procedures for the collection and disposal of waste for recycling. Businesses and homeowners, within a municipality which operates recycling centers, are required to install and maintain recycling receptacles in accordance with municipal directives. Waste must be separated at source and discarded into specially designated receptacles for different waste components.

Collection and Disposal of Waste for Recycling Regulations (Obligation of Waste Disposal for Recycling), 1998

These regulations require local authorities to reduce their waste for disposal by means of recycling in accordance with graduated recycling targets as per the following timetable: at least 10% by December 1998, 15% by December 2000 and 25% by December 2007.

The regulations require the head of a local authority to inform the Minister of the Environment about the quantity of waste that was generated by the local authority during the previous year. A special reporting form with details on the components of the waste generated by the local authority is included in the regulations.