Israel’s Minister of Environmental Protection visits UBQ Materials

Late last year, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett told world leaders at the UN’s COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland that Israel was poised to “become a climate innovation nation.” This was a defining moment for the country, which has significantly ramped up its efforts to tackle climate change issues.

One company that witnessed the pivotal moment in Glasgow was UBQ Materials, the Israeli firm that develops a sustainable thermoplastic material from unsorted household waste. The company’s co-CEO and co-founder Jack “Tato” Bigio says while they were the only Israeli company that appeared at the summit, they were welcomed warmly by the Israeli delegation in attendance.

“COP26 was a milestone in the climate agenda and the delegation shows a very strong commitment to reducing carbon emissions until 2030 and getting to net zero by 2050,” Bigio tells NoCamels, “Prime Minister Bennett had a very promising speech and yet, Israel is far from having a real solution to combat those climate change issues. The [government] has to work very hard and move very fast and they understand that some technologies can help accelerate the process.

Last week, Israel’s Minister of Environmental Protection, Tamar Zandberg, visited the UBQ Materials production plant in Kibbutz Tselim in the Negev. She was joined by Galit Cohen, director-general of the Ministry of Environmental Protection, and other staff.

“I think they understand that UBQ is a unique solution that can help that [climate] agenda and of course, they can be supportive of an Israeli technology that also helps the global agenda, which is what Bennett said,” Bigio explains.

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UBQ Materials is a Gold Partner of the Rethinking Materials Summit on May 4-5, 2022.