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| January 21, 2020
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Israel-based cleantech recycles its trash for Mercedes parts

Mercedes will be using parts & panels made with a plastic alternative produced by Israel’s UBQ, which developed a process to recycle solid garbage into a plastic-like raw material.

By Udi Etsion

 

Mercedes parent company Daimler AG is planning a pilot to test whether an ecological plastic alternative manufactured in Israel could be used in its vehicles, according to Israel-based cleantech startup UBQ-Zeelim Ltd.

UBQ, founded in 2014 and based in Tze’elim, a kibbutz in southern Israel, developed a process to recycle residual municipal solid waste such as food waste, soiled cardboard or paper, and mixed plastics usually destined for landfills into a plastic-like raw material. Continue Reading »

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| March 16, 2014
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Palestinians ask UN to make Green Line a red one ‘seen from space’

Palestinians want new ‘Red Line’ to become the 1967 line’s new name and want the boundary visible from space.

By Josh Chester

 

The Palestinian Authority will ask the United Nations to change the color of the demarcation line that represents Israel’s pre-1967 borders, replacing the Green Line with a red one.

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An activist symbolically paints the Green Line in Jerusalem, June 2013. Where’s the red paint? – Photo: A. Daniel Roth

The Green Line, the product of the 1949 Armistice Agreements, became known as such simply because of the ink color used on the map. The Palestinians, however, say this arbitrary choice is sending out the wrong message. Continue Reading »

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