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Article: Why They're Not Burning Tires in Beit Shemesh
- Article from:
- The Jerusalem Report
- Article date:
- February 23, 2004
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In the city suffering Israel's gravest air pollution, a group of
local activists organized to prevent things getting worse The
proposal was first raised last spring, and presented as anything but
an environmental hazard. Nesher Cement Enterprises - which holds a
monopoly on cement production in Israel - sought government
permission to burn used tires, rather than oil, on a trial basis in
the furnace of its plant outside Beit Shemesh.
On the face of it, the idea seemed admirable: Discarded tires rise
to the surface at waste dumps, collect water and serve as breeding
grounds for mosquitoes. Burning them as industrial fuel as cement
plants do in much of the West, would alleviate the problem, ...