Waste Disposal Site
Abu Dis has a waste disposal site that became operational in the early 1980s. Until 2011, the site received about half of the 1,400 tons of garbage produced every day in the Jerusalem District. The landfill site is overflowing and slated to expected to close by 2013.
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