http://www.greenprophet.com/2009/07/hiria-green-energy/ A sustainable news site on the Middle East Mon, 13 Feb 2012 06:20:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.greenprophet.com/2009/07/hiria-green-energy/#comment-3463 James Mon, 27 Jul 2009 06:43:39 +0000 http://greenprophet.com/?p=10551#comment-3463 I went on a trip there last week to explore the site. While the companies involved in the site, particularly Arrow Ecology - which gets 10% of all the trash dumped there daily to sort through & recycle, are doing great things - including another company that apparently makes lava-like rocks for gardens from municipal green waste; the 'green' side of things seem to be disorganised and unclear. There is a great environmental education centre, full of objects from recycled things (I will try & post some pics) and as a base for workshops...but it is rarely open. The trip up to stand on top of the dump is something: standing on however many feet of 50 years of accumulated trash is something to experience. And they have ambitious plans: expanding the land with various other parcels of land to create the Sharon National Park, which can only be a good thing. This will even stretch across the Ayalon over a specially constructed bridge! But it is not expected to be complete for another couple o' years. Watch this space! I went on a trip there last week to explore the site. While the companies involved in the site, particularly Arrow Ecology – which gets 10% of all the trash dumped there daily to sort through & recycle, are doing great things – including another company that apparently makes lava-like rocks for gardens from municipal green waste; the ‘green’ side of things seem to be disorganised and unclear. There is a great environmental education centre, full of objects from recycled things (I will try & post some pics) and as a base for workshops…but it is rarely open. The trip up to stand on top of the dump is something: standing on however many feet of 50 years of accumulated trash is something to experience. And they have ambitious plans: expanding the land with various other parcels of land to create the Sharon National Park, which can only be a good thing. This will even stretch across the Ayalon over a specially constructed bridge! But it is not expected to be complete for another couple o’ years. Watch this space!

]]> http://www.greenprophet.com/2009/07/hiria-green-energy/#comment-3462 smarty Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:52:37 +0000 http://greenprophet.com/?p=10551#comment-3462 WOW!!That an excellent step taken towards saving the planet.Keep up the good work WOW!!That an excellent step taken towards saving the planet.Keep up the good work

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