This document is part of an extensive research project addressing climate justice in Israel, initiated by the Association of Environmental Justice in Israel (AEJI) and undertaken in collaboration with Tel Aviv University. The goals of the project are to research the socio-economic characteristics of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions produced from different sources in Israel, and formulate policy tools, including social- and behavioral-economic tools. Between the years 2011-2013, the research focused on four main spheres: domestic electricity consumption; use of transportation (privately owned vehicles); food consumption; and the production and treatment of solid waste – the issue addressed by this document.
Based on availability of data, we had examined quantities of waste production in different localities in Israel and the rate of emissions from waste in each locality; and compared between localities according to their classifications as cities, local councils (smaller towns) and regional (rural) councils, and their classification into socio-economic clusters. The results of these calculations are expressed by carbon inequality coefficients – which reflect the disparity between emission quantities per person in the different clusters as related to the quantity of emissions in cluster 1 (the poorest). The following tables, summarizing the results of the research, indicate that environmental injustice does exist with regard to GHG emissions from waste, but its extent varies in accordance with the type of locality.
