The Harish municipality is expanding its campaign against waste fires and smoke drifting into the city from the area of Barta'a and Baka, announcing a wide regional partnership aimed at improving air quality and protecting residents' health.
Following a working meeting, a joint professional tour was held with an unusually broad roster of participants: the Environmental Protection Ministry's Green Police, the Menashe District Coordination and Liaison office, the Yanshuf unit, the Israel Police environmental protection division, the Menashe and Samaria regional councils, representatives of Mitzpe Ilan, the NGO Citizens for Clean Air, and Harish municipality officials.
The tour produced a series of steps to be advanced in the coming period, including examining advanced technological tools to expand monitoring, stepping up enforcement against illegal dumpers and pirate waste sites, and establishing a permanent mechanism for early identification of risk hotspots.
City hall said the fight requires cooperation from every relevant authority, and called on residents to continue reporting smoke, waste burning and other environmental hazards so enforcement bodies can respond quickly.
Smoke from open burning of waste — often the cheap disposal method of choice for illegal operators in the seam-line area — has for years been one of the most persistent quality-of-life complaints in Harish, particularly on evenings when the wind carries the smell into residential streets.
Source: Migdalor News
