While Israel is faced with a shortage of land-filling sites and long hauling distances from the populated center to the extremities – the organic components already in the landfill produce methane – a very potent greenhouse gas. While two landfills in Israel capture their GHG – most landfills, including the ones serving the big metropolises, emit methane to holy air. 

 

Kiryat Shemona is Israel's northern town, notorious for its continuous threat of bombing from Lebanon. The local "Committee for the Protection of K.S. Nature Values" cooperates with the Good Energy Initiative on a voluntary organic separation project involving residential buildings which normally dispose of their organic waste through the general trash-bins. School children and community members learn about waste-to-compost practices.

The GHG emissions reduction project incorporates prevention of trucking waste to landfills and the resulting methane production.