Waste management and landfill sites: Bharatpur’s case
Waste management is one of the biggest problems governments are facing throughout the world.
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The other day, I came across a man with his big black car. He stops on an empty road, looks around and then retrieves a big white sack of garbage. And right in front of my eyes, I see him toss it to a heap of piled garbage. It felt like he had found a perfect place for garbage management. At that moment, my mind was saying: “Solid waste management is such a joke in the Kathmandu Metropolis!”
Keeping the house neat and clean is a priority for every household. After cleaning, we collect all the trash for the garbage collector to take it away. However, landfill sites these days have begun losing their capacity to hold such wastes. As reported by media, Sisdol located in Kakani Municipality of Nuwakot, is filled up completely and people living nearby the landfill site are suffering. Can this be even called management of waste?
And regarding the garbage collectors of our localities, it is ironic how we meet them more around the festive seasons than on weekdays. So when bags of garbage get piled up at houses, we take matters into our own hands. Our style of management is simple. Get out of the house early 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.
