Nepal

The Chandragiri Municipality is preparing to collect waste by segregating it, even though municipalities in the Kathmandu Valley are finding it difficult to separate waste into biodegradable and non-biodegradable categories.

This comes nearly two weeks after the Kathmandu Metropolitan City called off its plans to segregate the waste at source, citing the federal government's failure to provide them with nearly 200 ropanis of land.

Chandragiri Municipality distributes six bags to each household to collect the waste separately. It also hopes this move will encourage city residents to manage most of their waste.

Mayor Ghanashyam Giri said that this programme had been initiated to reduce the amount and sustainably manage the waste significantly. 

As part of this programme, the municipality will give green, red, black, white, blue, and yellow bags to every home. They will be instructed to put biodegradable waste, such as leftover food and vegetables, in the green bag.

The municipality says it will encourage people to turn the biodegradable waste they collect in green bags into manure.

Similar to how broken glass and other related waste should go in the red bag, plastic and plastic-related waste should go in the black bag. Residents have been urged by the municipality to sell this waste to recyclers.

While the blue bag would be used to store iron and other metal scraps that could be sold to scrap dealers, the white bag would be used to store waste paper that could also be sold to recyclers and up-cyclers.

Sanitary pads, diapers, and other waste that cannot be managed individually should be placed in the yellow bag.

According to Mayor Giri, the municipality has developed guidelines for managing waste, and the Municipality will collect the waste that is kept in different bags on different days.

According to the Chandragiri Municipality, six private waste collection contractors have been given instructions on how to collect waste.

-- With RSS inputs