Israel built the Middle East's largest garbage power plant

Israel is building a power plant from waste that has the capacity to double the amount of waste that Tel Aviv produces every day.

According to the Israeli Environment Ministry, once operational in 2016, it will be the largest waste-based power plant in the Middle East and one of the world's largest plants.

The plant is capable of handling more than 1,000 tons of waste per day and will include an organic waste treatment system using anaerobic digestion method to produce "clean" power and humus from the by-products.

This project is part of the Israeli government's policy to encourage production and renewable energy use.

Accordingly, the recycling of waste on a large scale will reduce the amount of landfill, reduce environmental pollution compared to traditional methods as well as reduce the land area for landfill.

Israeli Environment Minister Gilad Erdan said the country is rapidly approaching the waste recycling standards of developed countries.

In many parts of the world, recycling waste has become a new economic sector that not only creates many new jobs but also enables the production of clean energy and reduces dependence on oil.

The implementation of the project is a "revolution" in waste recycling and can create tens of thousands of new jobs.

It is expected that by 2014, there will be 1.5 million people participating in this project through sorting waste at source.