Israeli teen advances to infl environmental contest reporting

By
DANIELLE ZIRI

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mountain,
on

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not

aware

of it's

Koren Seventeen-year-old Shayb, who is at the IsraelArts and Science Academy junior in Jerusalem, boarding school for gifted students, won the national level of the Young for the Environment contest, which Reporters is independently in various counorganized tries across

the environment. consequences "A lot of people are not aware of what happens to their garbage after theythrow it away," she told Tlie Jerusalem Post on Tuesday. "The environment

issomething that always interestedme,

that'swhy

did the video."

it took her

Shayb said

while to finish the

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now

the world, and has

advanced

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mountain

located near

her home

in Ra'anana.

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to

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little bit in shock. lot in this video,

so

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down

to

that the waste explained releases pollutants that then trickle ground waters. She also presented

"I invested

it feelsgood

be rewarded for it,"she added.

data she collected from Ra'anana, which

residents in surveying

revealed that

althoughthe
about the

video has now entered the Young Shayb's for the Environment's international Reporters contest along with winners from about 20 other
countries

in her city of people know majority