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Paste the Waste: will the plastic bags become glue?
A new development makes it possible to turn plastic bags from polluting waste into glue – is this idea will help to reduce the ongoing environmental damage of disposable plastic?
Prof. Ofira Ayalon explains whether this idea is promising as we would like to believe.
The electric revolution has arrived. So why does it seem like that the exhaust fumes are here to stay for at least another decade?
Idan Liebes
One might think that in a country addicted to cars like Israel, electric cars would be a hit. But as things currently stands, it heads towards a glorious miss.
Idan Liebes, an energy and smart mobility policy researcher at the Samuel Neaman Institute, explains that it’ll be an uphill battle as long as the country will remain addicted to taxes from vehicles that run on fuel, which amounts to roughly one-tenth of its tax revenues.
Prof. Manuel Trajtenberg to Head INSS
Manuel Trajtenberg
Prof. Manuel Trajtenberg is selected by the INSS Board of Directors to head the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), replacing Maj. Gen. (ret.) Amos Yadlin, who is completing a decade as Executive Director of the Institute.
The war against the Corona Virus and whether the recruitment for all is the answer to the wrong question
Reuven Gal, Stuart Cohen, Asaf Malhi
A recent report written by researchers at the Samuel Neaman Institute at the Technion and the Israel Democracy Institute, criticizes the new recruitment outline proposed by the “Pnimma” NGO.
The authors, Dr. Reuven Gal, Dr. Asaf Malhi, Prof. Stuart Cohen, claim that “the proposed outline is based on weak assumptions that are not sufficiently well-founded and on recommendations that have significant internal contradictions.”
“The lowest point of this crisis was the grants distribution. It’s terrible how Politics got in”
Manuel Trajtenberg
Prof. Manuel Trajtenberg: “A huge revolution is expected in the labor market, in which, occupations to which we have become accustomed will disappear”
This was stated from an interview by the editor of TheMarker, at the “The Day After” conference, which was held by TheMarker and Bank Leumi, and deals with strategies for getting out of the crisis.
The ecological disaster that recently covered us with black tar
An interview with Prof. Ofira Ayalon from Samuel Neaman Institute at the Technion.
Faster, Higher, Stronger
Israel is not the only place with urban renewal projects, says Professor Rachelle Alterman, Senior Researcher at the Samuel Neaman Institute for National Policy Research.
However, she emphasizes, there are not many countries where the law enables condominium owners to decide to demolish and rebuilt by means of a reduced majority.
This is important to overcome “holdout” apartment owners. This rule is crucial in Israel, unlike some other countries, because most of our buildings are in condominium tenure.
This makes the decision-making process more complicated.
The Ministry of Energy claims that methane emissions in Israel are among the lowest in the world. Is it possible?
The Ministry found that the volume of methane, an aggressive greenhouse gas, in Israel is very small – which is inconsistent with data from the world.
A study conducted at the Samuel Neaman Institute at the Technion found that the global average of emissions from natural gas is 1.7%.
All we need is (more) garbage
The start-up UBQ recycles household waste into plastics, which has already become products at Walmart, Mercedes and McDonald’s.
Prof. Ofira Ayalon, head of the environment cluster at Samuel Neaman Institute at the Technion and a faculty member of the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management at the University of Haifa, has doubts about the technology: “In each technology there is a mass balance- what goes in has to go out. I don’t know if it goes out into the product or whether it goes out into the air or water”.
For the fourth time in a decade, the Ministry of Environmental Protection presents a plan to manage municipal solid waste
The Ministry’s plan was designed to increase waste recycling, by separating it into three bins.
To implement it will require government investment, a new dedicated law and the cooperation of local authorities that oppose the Ministry’s proposals.
Prof. Ofira Ayalon from Samuel Neaman Institute at the Technion and her colleague, Dr. Shira Daskal, recently analyzed the barriers to the management of municipal waste in Israel and presented the causes for previous failures.