KATHMANDU: Newly elected Mayor of Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) Balendra Shah has inspected Sisdol landfill site for the second time. Mayor Shah and Deputy Mayor Sunita Dangol have reached Sisdol after the Kathmandu Valley has been facing problems in waste management for a long time. Mayor Shah, who has given priority to waste management in […]
KMC’s Department of Environment Chief Hari Kumar Shrestha told NepalNews that the Waste Management Division has already started collecting and carrying away the waste to the landfill sites.
Kathmandu Valley’s only landfill site Sisdole has reached its maximum capacity. All photos: AMIT MACHAMASI epal’s capital stank for more than a fortnight before Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) decided to resume garbage collection this week with the Department of Roads agreeing to repair the route to the Sisdole landfill site, 30km away. Kathmandu’s only landfill Sisdole […]
Kathmandu, May 3 . The Kathmandu metropolitan city (KMC) has identified a new landfill site to dispose of garbage generated in Kathmandu valley during rainy season. Fifteen ropanis of land at ‘village one’ and ‘village two’ at Kakani rural municipality-2 will be used to dump garbage generated during rainy season when more amount of waste […]
Waste disposal in Kathmandu has been affected after the landfill site in Sisdol has become full for any waste to be dumped. Hari Kumar Shrestha the Chief of the Environment Department of the KMC has said that the landfill site in Sisdol has been filled beyond capacity.
“The operation of the new landfill site was supposed to begin from May 15, but owing to existing prohibitory order, the use of it has been delayed for the foreseeable future,” said Hari Kumar Shrestha, the chief of the Environment Department of Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC).
