Indore
model: A
blueprint for
Kathmandu’s
waste crisis,
by Shaswot
Lamichhane and
Prajwal
Bhattarai (ae
20/11/2024)
KMC
to manage only
segregated
waste (rep
19/11/2024)
Dearth
of
environmental
justice:
Horror for
people living
around Sisdol
landfill site,
by Yashaswi KC
(ht
19/11/2024)
Cleanup
campaign
conducted at
Annapurna Base
Camp and trail
(kh
16/11/2024)
Mayor
Balen accuses
federal govt
of
politicizing
Kathmandu’s
waste
management
(kh
15/11/2024),
Stop
Politicizing
Waste
Management :
Waste
management is
a critical
issue in
Kathmandu. The
federal
capital has
struggled for
years to
manage its
waste
effectively.
Although
various
solutions have
been explored
over the
years, the
issue remains
unresolved
(rep
16/11/2024)
KMC
to limit waste
transport to
Banchare Danda
to 20 percent
(rep
31/10/2024)
Kathmandu’s
flood exposes
garbage
crisis :
The rivers
threw trash
right back at
city dwellers
who had dumped
them,
photos by
Suman Nepali
(nt
25/10/2024)
KMC
gives
Annapurna
Neuro Hospital
one week to
improve
hazardous
waste
management
practices
(kh
19/09/2024)
KMC
to enforce
waste
segregation
rules in all
32 wards :
Turning waste
to compost has
already
started in 89
community
schools of the
metropolis
(kp
15/09/2024)
Baglung
launches ‘zero
waste’
initiative :
The site has
been divided
into three
sections to
manage
organic,
non-organic,
and hazardous
waste such as
glass, by
Prakash Baral
(kp
08/09/2024)
Effective
Management Of
Medical Waste
(rn
25/08/2024)
It’s
official:
Chinese drones
will fly trash
out of Everest
slopes : In a
flight test,
the DJI
FlyCart 30
could ferry
234 kg an
hour, a task
carried out by
some 14
porters in six
hours, by
Sangam Prasain
(kp
05/08/2024)
Open
burning of
plastic waste
poses threat
to air quality
and health (rep
01/08/2024)
KMC
deploys heavy equipment
to clear roads to
Bancharedanda landfill :
Newly bought
high-pressure pumps will
drain floodwaters from
inundated settlements,
by Arjun Poudel (kp
15/07/2024)
EU
provides Rs 12 million
grant for plastic waste
management (kh
04/07/2024)
Bharatpur
streets are overflowing with garbage : Garbage
problem worsens as flooding renders riverside
dumping site inaccessible in monsoon, and locals
bar dumping near riverside settlements, by
Ramesh Kumar Poudel (kp 03/07/2024)
Rains
won’t hinder valley waste management this year
(kh 28/06/2024)
Local
governments unable to deal with plastic waste
menace (ae 19/06/2024)
Eleven
tonnes of rubbish taken off Himalayan peaks
(kh 07/06/2024)
As
monsoon nears, KMC starts repairing road to
Bancharedanda landfill site : Officials are
mulling buying a high-pressure pump to prevent
landfill leachate from contaminating the local
river, by Arjun Poudel (kp 06/06/2024)
24,575
kg plastic waste prevented from leaking into
Sunkoshi river (kh 01/06/2024)
Everest:
A high-altitude garbage dump : It could pose
health risks for transient climbers but a more
serious threat to people living in nearby
settlements, by Suzanne OConnell &
Alton C Byers (kp 10/05/2024)
Nepal
to use drones to transport garbage from Mount
Everest : The Khumbu Pasang Lhamu Rural
Municipality has made poop bags mandatory for
climbers above the base camp, by Sangam
Prasain (kp 30/04/2024)
NA
team collects over two tons of garbage from
Himalayas (kh 30/04/2024)
Urgency
of policy update for Nepal's National Park
buffer zones, by Uday R Sharma (rep
30/04/2024)
Seven
wards of KMC start waste segregation, four more
to start soon : The city office has also issued
a tender notice of more than Rs2.2 million to
sell segregated reusable waste (kp
30/04/2024)
Waste
management in rural tourism, by Manish
Koirala (ae 25/04/2024)
EU
Ambassador Lorenzo urges political
prioritization of Waste Management in Nepal
(kh 09/04/2024)
Nepal
Army to collect 10 tons trash from the Everest
region (kh 08/04/2024)
Locals
halt waste disposal at Bancharedanda landfill
site, demand action on agreements (kh
06/04/2024)
Kathmandu
metropolis calls for tenders for sale of dry
waste (kh 22/03/2023)
Segregated
waste to be dumped separately in landfill :
Officials plan to enforce waste segregation
rules in all wards of KMC first and then extend
to other local units of the Valley (kp
21/03/2024), Divide
and conquer : Segregating the Valley’s waste
makes perfect sense. But are we prepared to do
the needful? (kp 27/03/2024)
Manage
Hosp/ital Waste Properly, by Uttam Maharjan
(rn 13/03/2024)
KMC
to expand waste segregation to ward number 5 and
12 : The city office has started segregating
degradable and non-degradable from ward 27.
Degradable waste is also being used to produce
biogas (kp 05/03/2024)
KMC
stops collecting waste from four hospitals
(kh 26/02/2024)
Kathmandu
metropolis starts turning household waste into
compost manure (kp 21/02/2024)
KMC
suspends garbage collection services at Kanti
Children's Hospital (rep 15/02/2024)
KMC
starts monitoring waste management practices of
health facilities (kp 13/02/2024)
KMC
to go for segregated waste management for
enhanced efficiency (kh 02/02/2024), KMC
begins collection of segregated waste from Ward
Number 27 (rep 04/02/2024), KMC
to deploy 2,000 sets of dustbins for waste
segregation (rep 09/02/2024)
Health
ministry seeks expert advice to dispose of 4
million doses of Covid-19 vaccine : The
Sinovac-CoronaVac doses gifted by China some two
years ago expired in December last year (kp
25/01/2024)
When
sustainability becomes just a show, by Cilla
Khatry (ae 16/01/2024)
Why
are motorcycles worth millions of rupees left to
rot at police offices?, by Upendra
Lamichhane (rep 11/01/2024)
Kathmandu
metropolis plans sorting household waste
sector-wise : Officials say the 32 wards of the
city will be divided into eight sectors and
waste materials will be segregated in the
respective blocks (kp 05/01/2024)
Kathmandu
Valley Mayors Forum decides to entrust govt with
waste management responsibility (rep
05/01/2024)
Managing
health-care waste : As Nepal advances its
healthcare facilities, prioritising waste
management will result in a more sustainable
future, by Pushpa Raj Joshi (kp 02/01/2023)
Mixing
of medical waste with municipal garbage
continues unchecked : Kathmandu Metropolitan
City has fined at least two pri/vate firms
within one week for mixing hospital waste wi/th
household waste and dumping it in the
Bancharedanda landfill, by Arjun Poudel (kp
23/12/2023)
KMC
to install )4,000 dustbins in public places :
The metropolis on Wed)nesday collected 40 tons
of garbage from the hill around Swayambhunath
Stupa with the help of 300 cleaning staff
(kp 08/12/2023)
Kanchanpur
district bans plastics (kh 10/11/2023)
Agitating
Banchare Danda locals serve October 7 deadline
for govt meet their demands : Warn of
obstructing garbage disposal in Banchare Danda
landfill site if their demands not met by the
deadline (rep 16/09/2023), After
government’s ‘preliminary draft’ for solution,
landfill victims defer their protest until Oct 7
: Negligence at the landfill site has caused
reduction in agricultural production,
proliferation of flies, disruption of education
in schools, respiratory problems and skin
diseases, by Anup Ojha (kp 20/09/2023)
Landfill
victims warn they will obstruct waste disposal
again if their demands aren’t met : Over the
past 18 years, authorities have reached 175
agreements with the locals but they have all
been breached, by Anup Ojha (kp 13/09/2023)
Circular
Economy of Plastics, by Yunish Ghimire and
Pratik Bajracharya (rep 11/09/2023)
Kathmandu
metropolis starts dumping truckloads of cables
at Banchare Danda : Local residents,
representatives have objected to the
metropolitan city’s move, by Anup Ojha (kp
03/09/2023), Nuwakot
lawmakers draw prime minister’s attention to
plights of Banchare Danda locals : They hand
over a memorandum to the prime minister
demanding the government implement past
agreements (kp 03/09/2023)
Landfill
site locals threaten ‘ultimate’ protest over
unfulfilled promises : Say they will talk only
with the prime minister and agree for nothing
less than a separate body to address their
problems, by Anup Ojha (kp 30/08/2023)
Empowering
Informal Waste Workers through Formalization,
by Deep Prakash Ayadi (kh 29/08/2023)
KMC
resumes garbage collection, management in the
Valley after an agreement with locals in Sisdole,
by Samiksha Shrestha (rep 23/07/2023)
Banchare
Danda, Sisdole locals say waste has turned their
‘paradise into hell’ : Amid locals’ protest,
police escorted a caravan of garbage trucks to
Banchare Danda on Friday, by Anup Ojha (kp
23/07/2023)
Locals
not to allow disposal of Valley garbage in
Bancharedanda until demands are met (kh
19/07/2023)
Locals
in Nuwakot and Dhading stop garbage trucks over
‘broken promises’ : KMC says it has done its
bit, accuses federal government of indifference.
Supreme Court orders swift disposal, by Anup
Ojha (kp 18/07/2023)
KMC
takes major step towards sustainability: Plastic
use banned (rep 18/07/2023)
Locals
of Sisdol, Bancharedanda stop trucks carrying
garbage from Kathmandu (kh 17/07/2023), Waste disposal
disrupted once again at Banchare Danda (kh
17/07/2023), Kathmandu
waste management problem resurfaces : The
agitating locals claim that despite signing an
agreement a year ago, the KMC has failed to
fulfill its obligations, by Pratik Ghimire
(ae 17/07/2023)
Kakani
Rural Municipality to impose fee of Rs 1,500
from trucks carrying garbage to Bancharedanda
(kh 12/07/2023)
Ban
and regulate plastic bags, SC tells govt, by
Bhasa Sharma (rep 09/07/2023)
Government
bans plastic bags below 40 microns (kh
06/07/2023)
Birgunj
shows how to manage waste by utilizing data and
technology : Birgunj Metropolitan City is taking
the lead in addressing the problem of waste
management by utilizing the latest technology
and data, by Kamal Gurung (nlt 27/06/2023)
Emerging
problem: How to handle hazardous e-waste : CRT
monitors account for 40 percent, mobile phones
39 percent and refrigerators 16 percent of the
total e-waste, by Subin Adhikari (kp
21/06/2023)
Passenger
vehicles asked to carry dustbins (kh
11/06/2023)
Reducing
plastic waste : We should control plastic
pollution before the environmental damages
become irreversible, by Anustha Shrestha (kp
11/06/2023)
Managing
waste sustainably : Federal and provincial
governments should collaborate with local levels
to address the problem, by Ganesh Paudel (kp
26/05/2023)
NA
collects more than 35,000 kg of garbage from
mountains (kh 26/05/2023)
Stalled
garbage collection resumes at Singha Durbar and
other VIP addresses : Kathmandu mayor had
stopped trash collection from the central
secretariat to protest federal government’s
non-cooperation (kp 25/04/2023)
City
may resume garbage removal from Singha Durbar :
Kathmandu Metropolitan City officials say they
are waiting for the Supreme Court’s Friday order
to arrive (kp 24/04/2023)
Shah-Singha
Durbar spat sign of bigger waste problem :
Dhunibesi and Kakani vow to obstruct garbage
disposal at Banchare Danda if their demands are
not honoured, by Anup Ojha (kp 21/04/2023),
Locals
threaten KMC with disruption in dumping of
garbage in Banchare Danda landfill site if
demands not met within 15 days (rep
21/04/2023)
Ministry-KMC
talks to remove garbage from Singha Durbar
inconclusive, by Bhuwan Sharma (rep
21/04/2023(
Petition
filed at SC against KMC’s decision not to
collect garbage from Singha Durbar (rep
18/04/2023)
Ratnanagar
receives outstanding award for waste management
(kh 17/04/2023)
City
starts producing methane out of Kathmandu’s
garbage : The plant is currently producing eight
tonnes of biogas daily and it will be a while
before it starts generating electricity too,
officials say (kp 17/04/2023)
About
time we started using dustbins : Nepalis are yet
to learn the value of proper waste disposal. And
the problem only seems to be getting bigger,
by Somy Bhattarai (kp 16/04/2023)
Garbage
piled up in Singha Durbar reflects govt’s
indifferent attitude: KMC Mayor Balen (kh
10/04/2023), Waste
piles up in Singha Durbar as KMC stops
collecting it (ht 10/04/2023)
The
tragic lives of trash collectors : Around 4,000
laborers from 75 private companies and
municipalities handle the waste Kathmandu
generates on a daily basis, by Cilla Khatry
(ae 05/04/2023)
Birgunj
metropolis dumps garbage on telecom office
premises (rep 04/04/2023), After
Telecom's commitment, Birgunj Metropolis starts
to remove garbage (rep 05/04/2023)
Jomsom
bans beer bottles from April 14 (rep
03/04/2023)
Banchare
Danda Landfill Affected Area Concern Committee
warns KMC of prohibiting dumping of waste if
demands not met (rep 15/03/2023)
Shortage
of soil for ‘capping’ at Bancharedanda (kh
23/02/2023)
Rampant
garbage piles raise stink along Kaligandaki
corridor (kh 30/01/2023)
Tulsipur
collaborating with private sector for waste
management (kh 21/01/2023)
Chandragiri
Municipality to continue with waste segregation
(kh 19/12/2022)
Garbage
collected from tourist site Panchpokhari (kh
16/12/2022)
Kathmandu’s
compost bin plan offers little hope : Former
officials and urban planners are sceptic as it
is a tried, tested, and failed measure, by
Anup Ojha (kp 14/12/2022)
Sixth
week of clean-up campaign marked in Nagarjun
National Park : The event saw students, teachers
and volunteers clean up three hiking routes as
part of the ‘Litter Free National Park’ campaign
ongoing since October this year (kp
05/12/2022)
Birendranagar
plagued by waste mismanagement : The garbage
being dumped at Tarebhir inside the Shree
Krishna Community Forest is causing hazardous
pollution, affecting humans and wildlife, by
Chandani Kathayat (kp 08/11/2022)
How
our society doesn’t support a sustainable
lifestyle, by Cilla Khatry (ae 20/10/2022)
Rule
to disaggregate solid wastes within the source
of origin remains unimplemented (kh
02/10/2022)
KMC
scouting for site to manage biodegradable waste
(rn 30/09/2022)
Solid
waste management in Kathmandu and the way
forward : Delving into better, modern and
efficient ways of managing organic as well as
recyclable solid waste is the necessity of
Kathmandu Metropolitan City, by Nabin Kafle
(nlt 27/09/2022)
Drowning
in plastic, by Cilla Khatry (ae 22/09/2022)
Households
segregating waste as requested but KMC mixing it
up again : Local officials admit the waste
separation plan was launched in haste. Urban
planners say City should focus on doable things,
by Anup Ojha (kp 22/09/2022)
Reflecting
on events : Single-use plastic bottles seem to
dot climate change and sustainability programmes,
by Sujeev Shakya (kp 20/09/2022)
Nepal
produces one million tones of garbage in a year
(kh 19/09/2022)
Unmanaged
garbage polluting environment in Sundarharaicha
(kh 18/09/2022)
Waste
at Teku transfer station will be managed in two
days: KMC (kh 31/08/2022)
Sustainable
waste management : Bringing ready-to-cook food
will reduce the amount of food waste entering
the city, by Surendra Pradhan (kp
26/08/2022)
Medical
waste disposed of in Biring River in Birtamod :
Medical waste, highly hazardous to health and
generated by various hospitals in Birtamod, has
been finding its way to the Biring River of late,
by Arjun Rajbanshi (kp 25/08/2022), Not
in the river : Dumping medical waste in rivers
leads to fatal consequences as they become
sources of disease (kp 26/08/2022)
Action
to be taken against those throwing garbage
haphazardly (kh 24/08/2022)
Kathmandu’s
garbage problem becoming international ignominy
: A video clip of CNA news showing garbage heaps
in the capital has triggered public rage against
the politicians and Mayor of Kathmandu. Tourism
entrepreneurs say it will damage Nepal’s
reputation (nlt 24/08/2022)
Preparing
for COP 27 : Waste management has become a
political football that Nepali politicians enjoy
playing, by Sujeev Shakya (kp 23/08/2022)
Kathmandu
garbage to be picked up within two days (kh
22/08/2022)
Kathmandu
Metropolis says it requires 10 days to manage
garbage piled up in Kathmandu (nlt
19/08/2022), Garbage
management to take 10 more days (kh
20/08/2022)
KMC
yet to find alternative places to dump waste
(rn 20/08/2022) [How
about Baluwatar? Most of the " rubbish " is
produced there anyway!]
City
of garbage : The streets have filled up with
trash once again, and no solution is in sight,
by Amish Raj Mulmi (kp 19/08/2022)
Seeing
Kathmandu’s garbage crisis from the perspective
of Banchare Danda and Sisdole : What may seem
like a garbage problem for millions of citizens
of Kathmandu is a life or death crisis for the
people of Banchare Danda and Sisdole. It is a
human development crisis, an existential
ecosystem crisis, by Simone Galimberti (nlt
18/08/2022)
Getting
Rid Of Garbage Mess For Good, by Santosh
Kalwar (rn 18/08/2022)
Bagmati
choked with black sewage, trash (ht
18/08/2022)
Islands
of waste : Our understanding of what constitutes
waste and how we manage it should change (kp
18/08/2022)
KMC
starts dumping garbage in Bancharedanda despite
people’s obstruction (kh 17/08/2022)
Police
escorting garbage trucks to Banchare Danda
(nlt 17/08/2022), Amid
obstruction, 186 garbage trucks reach
Bancharedanda on Tuesday (kh 17/08/2022)
Government
bans plastic thinner than 40 microns in
Kathmandu (nlt 17/08/2022)
Locals
take slingshots to hills to stop garbage trucks
from Valley (rep 16/08/2022)
Install
recycling plant : The KMC must install an
efficient recycling plant used by other
metropolitan cities around the world (ht
15/08/2022)
Cadres
of ruling parties obstruct garbage disposal at
Banchare Danda landfill (nlt 15/08/2022), ‘We
will not let garbage be thrown in Banchare Danda
until our demands are met’ (rep 15/08/2022),
Garbage
disposal at Banchare Danda resumes under police
protection (rep 15/08/2022)
Additional
garbage trucks will reach Bancharedanda today:
Mayor Balen (kh 14/08/2022), 250
to 350 garbage trucks will reach Banchare Danda
daily from today if no obstacles: Mayor Balen
Shah (rep 14/08/2022), Police
help ferry Kathmandu's waste (ht 14/08/2022)
City
removes garbage from core areas for Gaijatra,
but lasting solution not in sight : Garbage
transport to Banchare Danda landfill remains
halted since Tuesday after lorries were
vandalised. Drivers in protest demanding action
against vandals, by Anup Ojha (kp
13/08/2022), Kathmanduites
feel let down by mayor (ht 13/08/2022)
Waste
Management In Valley Time to Adopt Modern
Technology, by Nawaraj Bhujel (rn
12/08/2022)
Garbage
piles raise stink, no respite in sight (ht
12/08/2022)
Unidentified
group vandalizes garbage-laden tippers in
Banchare Danda (nlt 09/08/2022), 14
vehicles carrying garbage from Kathmandu to
Bancharedanda vandalized (rep 09/08/2022)
Solution-oriented
garbage management: Turning Kathmandu Valley's
trash into cash, by Sharmila Pathak and
Shubhanu Acharya (rn 08/08/2022)
Garbage
pile up in Kathmandu yet again (kh
06/08/2022), Few
more days before Kathmandu streets see off
garbage (kh 06/08/2022), Garbage
collection to be stalled in Kathmandu for ‘few
more days’ (nlt 06/08/2022)
Composting
our way out of chaos, by Cilla Khatry (ae
04/08/2022)
Garbage
piled up in Kathmandu as maintenance continues
in access road (kh 31/07/2022)
Banchare
Danda locals obstruct garbage disposal yet again
(nlt 28/07/2022), Bancharedanda
locals to obstruct garbage dumping from August
17 (kh 28/07/2022)
Govt
bans use of plastic bags thinner than 40 microns
from August 14 (kh 26/07/2022), Ban
on plastic bags : Plastic bag producing firms
should be offered incentives to produce bags
made of handmade paper, nettle and jute (ht
28/07/2022)
KMC
not to collect garbage for a week (kh
21/07/2022), Garbage
piles up on Valley streets, again : With road
leading to Banchare Danda being repaired,
Kathmandu unable to collect garbage for several
days, by Anup Ojha (kp 27/07/2022), Garbage
to be collected from tomorrow (kh
27/07/2022)
Ways
to manage garbage : It is time we adopted means
to recycle waste instead of dumping it in
landfills (kp 19/07/2022)
Waste
in cities: Problem and awareness, by Sunil
Prasad Lohani and Upama Nepal (ht 18/07/2022)
KMC
releases schedule for collection of
biodegradable and non-biodegradable waste
(rep 16/07/2022), KMC
starts collecting decomposable and
non-decomposable waste separately (kh
17/07/2022)
City
covers waste pile in plastic after rains damage
road to Banchare Danda : On Sunday, the
Kathmandu Metropolitan City used a 40,000 square
feet of plastic tarp to cover the humongous pile
of rotting garbage at Teku, by Anup Ojha (kp
11/07/2022)
Experts
suggest producing fuel from waste plastic,
jatropha, ethanol to tide over fuel crisis
(kh 07/07/2022)
Garbage
management in Kathmandu to be affected for two
days (kh 28/06/2022)
Turning
waste into energy : A long-term, green solution
to Kathmandu’s waste problem could be to adopt
waste-to-energy technologies on a large,
commercial scale. But can it be done?, by
Prasansha Rimal (rec 24/06/2022)
KMC
to impose a fine of Rs 500 on those not
segregating degradable and non-degradable
garbage (kh 23/06/2022)
Infrastructure
ambulances to be operated only in the morning
and evening (rep 19/06/2022)
Environmental
Crisis in Kathmandu: Anarchy on Display, by
Sumit Pathak (rep 17/06/2022)
Dirtying
the city to keep your home clean : Kathmandu
doesn’t have a proper waste management system.
But what it also lacks is collective conscience,
by Cilla Khatry (ae 16/06/2022)
Early
report card of Mayor Balen Shah : Though waste
disposal is the collective responsibility of all
valley metros only the Kathmandu Mayor was
faulted. How should he conduct himself in the
days to come?, by Nishan Khatiwada (nlt
13/06/2022)
Garbage
top problem among callers to city office :
Kathmandu’s ‘call centre’ has received over
1,200 calls but City yet to develop mechanism to
address public grievances, by Anup Ojha (kp
12/06/2022)
Shun
Politics On Garbage, by Ritu Raj Subedi (rn
12/06/2022)
Landfill
site to be relocated to ward no. 33 of Pokhara
(rep 11/06/2022)
Minister
Jhakri holding talks with agitating
Bancharedanda locals on garbage management
(kh 10/06/2022), Banchare
Danda locals agree to allow garbage disposal
(nlt 10/06/2022), 18-pt
deal sealed on KMC’s waste management; garbage
be collected from today (kh 10/06/02022), Kathmandu
waste collection to resume; to be transported to
Banchare Danda during the night only : A new
agreement paves the way for garbage disposal
which has been affected for over a month, by
Anup Ojha (kp 10/06/2022)
Garbage
disposal halted for today as well as Banchare
Danda locals continue protest : The obstruction
in disposal has resulted in huge piles of waste
in Kath mandu streets, risking outbreaks of
communicable and vector-borne diseases with the
onset of monsoon (nlt 09/06/2022)
14
arrested in Nuwakot’s Sisdol for obstructing
vehicles carrying garbage (kh 07/06/2022), Police
clear obstruction at Banchare Danda landfill
site, detain protesters (nlt 07/06/2022), 157 trucks of
garbage dumped in Bancharedanda amidst protest
(kh 08/06/2022), Locals
obstruct garbage disposal yet again (nlt
08/06/2022), Garbage
disposal disrupted yet again as Bancharedanda
locals up the ante (kh 08/06/2022), NC
lawmaker Gagan Thapa urges PM to take initiative
in Kathmandu’s waste management (kh
08/06/2022), Garbage
in, garbage out : A solution is going to come
only if both sides engage in a compassionate
negotiation (kp 08/6/2022), Bancharedanda
locals clash with police over garbage dump row
(kh 08/06/2022), Deadlock
over waste management persists, by Ujwal
Satyal (ht), Bancharedanda
locals clash with police over garbage dump row :
Police fire tear gas shells to disperse
agitators (kh 08/06/2022), Six
policemen injured in clash with locals in
Nuwakot’s Bancharedanda : Police fire six rounds
of tear gas shells, 18 protestors arrested
(kh 08/06/2022), Barred
from disposing of waste in Banchare Danda,
garbage trucks return to Kathmandu (rep
08/06/2022)
Local
units across country turning waste into wealth
and wonder : Around 13.5 tonnes of garbage
collected daily from Dhankuta Municipality is
turned into compost manure by mixing the decayed
garbage with soil, which is later used to
fertilise a flower garden, by Ramesh Chandra
Adhikari (kp 07/06/2022), Now
onward, Kathmandu will not have to suffer due to
garbage heaps on streets: Mayor Shah (rep
07/06/2022) [???]
Locals
obstruct garbage disposal at Banchare Danda
landfill site (nlt 07/06/2022), What
an eyesore : The govt should have
consulted the locals before building the
landfill site at Banchare Danda (ht
07/06/2022), Garbage collection
in Kathmandu hits a snag as Sisdol locals
continue to disrupt (kh 07/06/2022), Experts’
team to visit landfill site at Sisdol today
(kh 07/06/2022), Garbage
piles make life difficult in Kathmandu : With
the onset of monsoon and garbage rotting in the
streets, doctors say there is high risk of
outbreaks of communicable and vector-borne
diseases, by Arjun Poudel (kp 07/06/2022)
Garbage
piles feeding river pollution in Capital city
(ht 06/06/2022)
Mayor’s
second visit to Sisdole does little to placate
disgruntled people : On his visit to the dumping
site Friday, Shah stated his resolve to free
Sisdole of the stench from the garbage dump
within a week but locals were far from appeased,
by Anup Ojha (kp 04/06/2022)
Saying
goodbye to plastics : Recognising the pollution
caused by plastics, the hotel industry has
promised to ban them (kp 03/06/2022)
Hotels
to ban single-use plastics in green push : Water
bottles, drinking straws, cutlery, plates, drink
stirrers, expanded polystyrene food service
products, toothbrushes and combs will be out
from 2025, by Sangam Prasain (kp 02/06/2022)
Waste
and dust management in Kathmandu a challenge for
new people’s representatives : Seven broomer
machines remain garaged in lack of drivers.
Local obstructions continue at Nuwakot landfill
sites, by Anup Ojha (kp 01/06/2022), Kathmandu’s
garbage problem is a mess, by Shuvam Rizal
(kp 02/06/2022)
Task
Force led by Mayor Shah for waste management
formed (kh 31/05/2022), Sisdole
locals say they won’t allow garbage at Banchare
Danda until their demands are met : Over 200
households with around 1,200 family members who
reside near the Sisdole and Banchare Danda
landfills have been categorised as highly
affected households, by Anup Ojha (kp
31/05/2022)
Proper
Management Of Urban Waste, by Uttam Maharjan
(rn 31/05/2022)
Kathmandu
mayor Balen Shah inspects Bancharedanda landfill
site (kh 28/05/2022)
Action
plan to implement ban on plastic bags below 40
microns (ht 21/05/2022)
Teku
residents launch protest against huge garbage
buildup at waste transfer station : Garbage
transport to Sisdole landfill remains halted for
weeks after protests by Nuwakot locals, by
Arjun Poudel (kp 17/05/2022), A
city that stinks : Kathmandu desperately waits
for a new mayor for an end to its waste
management problem (kp 18/05/2022)
Garbage
piled yet again in Kathmandu Valley (nlt
10/05/2022)
Capital's
waste transported with security escorts (rn
08/05/2022)
Piles
of garbage litter valley roads yet again :
Metropolitan staff has not picked waste for at
least 10 days (ht 04/05/2022), Garbage
heaps : We could look forward to a cleaner city
if the civil service were to be held more
accountable for its sanitation (ht
05/05/2022)
Thinking
twice about single-use plastics : The government
should create and implement stricter rules about
the consumption of such materials, by Sakhie
Pant (kp 02/05/2022)
KMC
makes it mandatory for locals to segregate
biodegradable and non-biodegradable while
disposing household waste (rep 14/04/2022)
Garbage
Piles Up In Kathmandu (photo feature) (rn
10/04/2022)
Garbage
piles up in Kathmandu as Nuwakot locals obstruct
disposal (nlt 12/03/2022)
Damak
to produce gas from waste soon (kh
11/03/2022)
Ministry
accuses Kathmandu City of reluctance in using
Banchare Danda landfill : The City has been
using the Sisdole landfill for 17 years although
the site was originally meant for just three
years, by Anup Ojha (kp 04/03/2022)
Garbage
collection in Valley suspended for nine days,
cities start stinking (rep 21/02/2022), Waste
Piles Up In Kathmandu As Nuwakot Locals Obstruct
Disposal, by Arpana Adhikari (rn 22/02/2022)
Manage
household waste at home: KMC (ht 20/02/2022)
Valley’s
waste disposal obstructed for last five days
(kh 18/02/2022)
Four
metric tons of waste managed by cleaning Bagmati
riverbank (kh 13/02/2022)
Bharatpur
Metropolitan City to manage wastes with support
from South Korea (kh 11/02/2022)
Deego
Nepal: Turning waste to treasure. The company
was born of the idea of putting everyday
non-recycled waste materials to a sustainable
use, by Priyanjali Karn (ae 10/02/2022)
Adhunik
Pet Industries: Recycling plastic waste :
Kathmandu Valley churns out over three tons of
plastic waste daily. This small recycling plant
has been recycling some of this waste into
granules that in turn are used to make plastic
products, by Pratik Ghimire (ae 10/02/2022)
‘Current
approach of collecting and dumping wastes has
several shortcomings, interview with’ Bishal
Bhardwaj, Climate Change Researcher (nlt
03/02/2022)
A
zero-waste life: Less is more : The idea is to
send nothing to the landfill by reducing
consumption, composting, reusing what we have,
and recycling what we can’t reuse, by Cilla
Khatry (ae 13/01/2022)
Birgunj
sets up medical waste management centre : The
centre has been established to safely dispose of
toxic medical wastes through autoclave
technology, by Bhusan Yadav (kp 16/12/2021)
Open
waste burning rife across country for lack of
management mechanisms : Little has been done to
stop persistent organic pollutants reaching air,
which are hazardous to life and environment,
by Aakriti Ghimire (kh 11/12/2021)
Butwal
continues to pollute Tinau River with its waste
: Garbage is dumped on the riverbanks as the
city does not have a waste processing site.
Garbage disposal on the riverbanks is affecting
the region’s biodiversite, by Amrita Anmol
(kp 13/11/2021)
Ward
chairpersons throw garbage in front of mayor’s
house in Janakpur (rep 31/10/2021)
Poorly
handled Covid-19 garbage could give rise to
hazardous waste crisis : Amount of
coronavirus-related refuse is increasing. There
are protocols to manage such items, but
implementation has been weak, leaving public
health in peril, by Arjun Poudel (kp
29/09/2021), A
clean sweep : Cleaner surroundings have a
profound positive effect on our health (kp
30/09/2021)
Garbage
piling up in the vicinity of TIA : Attracts
birds increasing chances of bird-hit as planes
land or take-off, by Ujjwal Satyal (ht
29/09/2021), Control
bird menace : TIA today lies in the midst of a
dense settlement and market places, which
generate tons of food waste every day (ht
30/09/2021)
Government
reintroduces ban on plastic bags, but
implementation remains doubtful, by Anup
Ojha (kp 17/09/2021), Ban
on plastic bags below 40 micron comes into
effect nationwide (ht 18/09/2021)
Waste
no waste : High time to embrace biogas, by
Sunil Prasad Lohani and Bipasyana Dhungana (ht
09/09/2021)
Kathmandu:
City of Garbage, by Dinkar Nepal (ae
09/09/2021)
Down
in the dumps : Sisdole residents continue to
suffer health and environmental problems from
the thousand tonnes of garbage that are being
dumped in their locale every day, by
Aishwarya Baidar (rec 07/09/2021)
Garbage
collection resumes in Kathmandu, major
thoroughfares yet to be cleared off wastes
(rep 04/09/2021)
What
if… we could drastically reduce our waste? If
Kathmandu were to reduce consumption and
segregate waste, Banchare Danda, an
under-construction landfill site in Nuwakot,
won’t go the Sisdol-way, by Cilla Khatry (ae
02/09/2021)
Load
of rubbish : A landfill site's lifespan can be
extended by many more years if we can reduce the
amount of refuse going there (ht 02/09/2021
Kathmandu
mayor says garbage collection will resume today
: Shakya blames damaged road to Sisdole for the
mess. City has agreed to pay the Department of
Roads for repairing the road to Sisdole landfill
site, by Anup Ojha (kp 01/09/2021), One
more week to collect all garbage from Valley
(kh 018/09/2021)
Youths
dump garbage outside Kathmandu Metropolitan City
office gate : The protest was organised against
the city’s failure to collect garbage from the
Capital for the last two weeks (kp
30/08/2021), Citizens
launch campaign to dispose of Valley garbage in
Sisdole (rep 31/08/2021)
Urban
Ministry urged to complete construction of
landfill site in Bancharedanda soon (kh
29/08/2021)
Resolving
Kathmandu Valley’s solid waste problems, by
Dhundi Raj Pathak (28/08/2021)
Garbage
city : For a lasting solution to our waste
management problem, we need to rethink what
constitutes waste (kp 24/08/2021), Garbage
piled up in Kathmandu Valley (rep
25/08/2021), Kathmandu
valley to remain littered with trash for one
more week (ht 26/08/2021), While
Kathmandu stinks, its mayor is running a musical
campaign : Kathmandu Metropolitan City officials
say the road to Sisdole landfill site has been
damaged by rains so garbage won’t be picked up
until the rains stop, by Anup Ojha (kp)
KMC
fails to rid the streets of waste (ht
20/08/2021)
More
garbage piles up on Bagmati riverbank in
Thapathali (kh 15/08/2021)
Living
with garbage, by Marissa Taylor (rec
12/08/2021)
COVID-19
healthcare waste management reform drive
launched (kh 07/08/2021)
Masks
save lives, but they’re also leading to a
gargantuan waste problem, by Prasansha Rimal
(rec 05/08/2021)
Garbage
Piles Up In Kathmandu As Sisdol Landfill Site
Filled, by Kshitiz Siwakoti (rn 16/07/2021)
Floodwaters
bring waste to Chitwan park, by Ramesh Kumar
Paudel (kp 12/07/2021)
Gokarneshwor
municipality installs sophisticated waste
management machine (kh 08/07/2021)
What
next after Sisdol and Bancharedanda?, by
Kopila Wagle and Kanchan Mani Dixit (kh
18/06/2021)
The
forgotten soldiers: Kathmandu’s trash collectors,
by Cilla Khatry (ae 17/0/2021)
Over
6,000 kg garbage scooped out from Mt Makalu
(kh 28/05/2021) [Climbers
who leave waste on the mountains should be
punished!]
Only
half of municipal waste gets collected, far less
recycled : The waste management baseline survey
of Nepal was conducted by the Central
Bureau of Statistics in the country’s 271
municipalities, by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp
11/05/2021)
Managing
Everest’s waste problem, by Alton C Byers
(nt 30/04/2021)
Bhimdatta
municipal government has no place to manage
town’s wasteA proposed landfill project has
failed to take off due to protest from some town
residents who do not want a waste management
facility near their homes, by Bhawani Bhatta
(kp 18/04/2021)
How
Kathmandu’s waste management emerged as a
perennial problem : Segregation of garbage at
the source itself and recycling the useful
materials could serve as a long-term solution,
according to experts, by Anup Ojha (kp
16/04/2021)
Amlekhgunj
littered with garbage (ht 15/04/2021)
KMC
To Operate Banchare Danda Landfill Site From May
15, by Kshitiz Siwakoti (rn 08/04/2021)
Garbage
collection resumes in Kathmandu after deal with
Sisdole residents : Roadsides and neighbourhoods
in Kathmandu were littered with garbage heaps
for the past one week, by Anup Ojha (kp
03/04/2021)
Annual
reports presented in HoR (kh 31/03/2021)
Valley’s
waste management hindered for six days (kp
31/03/2021)
Wasting
waste : A near non-existent waste management
system has turned our rivers into dark veins of
dirt (kp 02/03/2021)
Garbage
from Beni pollutes Kaligandaki river : The
municipality has been disposing of its waste in
the riverbank for the last 17 years for a lack
of a designated dumping site, by Ghanshyam
Khadka (kp 01/03/2021)
Authorities
fail to control waste burning as Valley
residents breathe polluted air : Even after
Kathmandu was ranked the world’s most polluted
city, government bodies have been unable to stop
open garbage burning, one of the major
contributors to air pollution, by Chandan
Kumar Mandal (kp 19/01/2021)
Bharatpur’s
plan to construct modern landfill site fails to
take off even after three years : The city has
been dumping garbage on Narayani riverbanks for
many years, polluting the river and surrounding
areas, by Ramesh Kumar Paudel (kp
18/01/2021)
Use
of electronic goods continues to grow but
there’s no policy for its disposal : Most of the
e-waste generated in the country comes from
television sets, computer display monitors, and
refrigerators. More people are also disposing of
their phones, by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp
17/01/2021)
The
domestic tourism sector is growing—but so is its
litter : As more and more Nepalis travel within
the country, tourism stakeholders and
environmentalists say that it’s important for
tourists to travel responsibly and be
mindful of the impact they have on the
destinations they travel to, by Tsering
Ngodup Lama (kp 21/12/2020)
Anti-plastic
behavior dying a slow death, environment
ministry in a slumber, by Anjali Subedi (rep
18/12/2020)
Construction
of waste processing facility starts in Rupandehi,
by Amrita Anmol (kp 09/12/2020)
Valley
garbage to be dumped at Banchare Danda from 2nd
week of Dec (kh 08/12/2020)
Call
for proper waste management in Kathmandu valley
amidst COVID-19 (ht 28/08/2020)
Bharatpur
dumps waste in Narayani River banks despite
having designated land to build a landfill site:
Monsoon spells disaster for locals living in
riverbank settlements with garbage washed ashore
by the overflowing river, by Ramesh Kumar
Paudel (kp 15/08/2020)
The
COVID-19 plastic pandemic: Increase in plastic
materials to counter infection risk threatens to
undo a decade of work to reduce waste, by
Sonia Awale and Ramesh Kumar (nt 31/07/2020)
KMC
grapples with waste management (ht
12/07/2020)
Municipal
solid waste management: Discourage Plastic Use,
by Mani Nepal (ht 29/06/2020)
Rain
damages road to Okharpauwa landfill: The
condition of the road might worsen further if
rain continues, say officials while doctors warn
diseases could spread easily if the collection
of waste is disrupted, by Anup Ojha (kp
10/05/2020)
New
landfill site at Bancharedanda to come into
operation next month (ht 09/05/2020)
Garbage
collectors who make sure diseases don’t spread
are now at risk of contracting Covid-19:
Sanitation workers are a high-risk group since
they come into contact with objects that could
host the coronavirus but they’re working without
proper protective gear, by Anup Ojha
(kp 05/04/2020)
Kathmandu
metropolis fails to address garbage woes amid
COVID-19 scare (ht 26/03/2020), KMC
struggles with waste management: Sanitation
workers are not prepared for scheduled garbage
pickup (ht 29/03/2020)
Poor
waste management affects people of
Siddharthanagar: The municipality had been
dumping garbage at the Paklihawa area, which
lies in the border of Siddharthanagar
Municipality Ward No. 1 and 2, by Madhav
Dhungana (kp 17/03/2020)
Unsafe
disposal of used lead-acid batteries a concern
in Myagdi: The disposal of used lead-acid
batteries as regular trash has raised concerns
over soil contamination and water pollution,
by Ghanashyam Khadka (kp 08/03/2020)
Locals
prevent Gorkha Municipality from dumping garbage
in Hattigauda: The municipality has been using
the forest area in Hattigauda as a dumping site
without proper disposal system, which has led to
waste pollution in the forest, say locals.
by Hariram Upreti (kp 26/02/2020)
Siddharthanagar
Municipality disposing of waste on riverbank,
by Mohammad Habib (22/02/2020)
Valley’s
pig keepers are not just making a living. They
are also contributing to organic waste
management: Pig farmers are collecting leftover
foods from hotels, restaurants and boarding
houses to feed their animals, by Anup Ojha
(kp 15/02/2020)
KMC
grapples with waste management woes (ht
09/02/2020)
Challenges
Of Hospital Waste Management, by Om Prakash
Ghimire (rn 13/01/2020), Private
hospitals still burning, burying and disposing
of hazardous waste together with municipal
waste, a new study shows: Health facilities’
reluctance to abide by the rules is putting
public health at risk and polluting environment,
experts say, by Arjun Poudel (kp 17/01/2020)
Kathmandu
Metropolitan City once again starts waste
segregation campaign: This time, the city office
will strictly enforce waste segregation rule,
officials say, by Anup Ojha (kp 04/01/2020)
Rajbiraj
youths dump garbage at municipality gate (ht
01/01/2020)
Dumping
site constructed without feasibility study
(ht 18/12/2019)
What
it takes to get rid of plastic: The ultimate
determiner will be the budget allocation for
waste management and industrial support for
alternatives, by Siddhartha Mainali (kp
02/12/2019)
Waste
management is a major problem in Achham: Lack of
proper landfill sites leading to pollution of
streams and rivers, by Menuka Dhungana (kp
30/11/2019)
Roadside
dumping of waste irks locals (ht 30/11/2019)
No
space for garbage in Jumla headquarters: Chandan
Nath Municipality alone produces around 40
quintals of garbage on a daily basis, but with
garbage collection halted in the area for the
past month, locals are having a tough time,
by LP Devkota (kp 03/11/2019)
The
garbage pile grows while locals, experts and
city governments argue: When projects stall due
to local pressure, the onus is on the local body
to find an alternative site, convince the
residents of the need for such projects, or
relocate settlements to make room (kp
25/10/2019)
Construction
of solid waste processing centres in Rupandehi
has been cancelled: The local units have
requested the federal government to solve the
problem of garbage management after the Asian
Development Bank cancelled its funding, by
Amrita Anmol (kp 24/10/2019)
Waste
segregation plan of KMC gathers dust (kp
23/10/2019)
Birgunj
Metropolis dumping waste near no-man’s-land: The
ghastly sight of garbage heaps and unpleasant
smell have forced locals and tourists alike to
avoid the area, by Shankar Acharya (kp
04/10/2019)
KMC
to continue valley waste management during
Dashain as well (ht 04/10/2019)
Foul
smell from garbage hassling locals (ht
03/10/2019)
Work
under way to generate biogas from garbage
(ht 03/10/2019)
Everest
fights back (against garbage and bad press),
by Alton C Byers (nt 20/09/2019)
Bhedetar
stinking to high heavens (ht 17/09/2019)
Trishuli
riverbanks are littered with garbage: The river
is one of the 100 tourist destinations chosen by
the government for the Visit Nepal 2020 campaign,
by Harihar Singh Rathour (kp 14/09/2019)
Improper
disposal of medical waste is putting garbage
collectors—and the public—at risk: Despite
governmental regulations, a number of hospitals
and clinics are not segregating their waste
properly, leaving needles and body parts for
general waste collectors, by Sneha Dahal (kp
04/09/2019)
Trishuli
River turning into dumping site of way-side
shops along Prithivi Highway, by Sarita
Shrestha (rep 03/09/2019)
Lahan
locals call for relocation of waste management
centre: The agitating locals held a gathering on
Sunday to plan a fresh protest programme, by
Bharat Jargha Magar (kp 02/09/2019)
Managing
wastes: Unmanaged waste has adverse impact on
public health and economy. The government should
manage it properly, by Sushmita Dulal (rep
01/09/2019)
Waste
segregation a must for every household in KMC
(ht 28/08/2019)
Coca-Cola
wanted consumers to be ‘best friend’ with its
new product. Not everyone is amused: Consumers
and waste management companies say smaller sized
bottles will add to plastic pollution in Nepal.
Coke defends its packaging, calling them
recyclable, by Bhrikuti Rai (kp 27/08/2019)
Kathmandu
metropolis starts waste segregation in three
wards: The initiative will be launched in Wards
12, 18 and 21, officials say, by Anup Ojha
(kp 26/08/2019)
Haphazard
construction of roads puts villages at high risk
of landslides: Many families in three villages
of Bajhang have been displaced due to landslides
in the last three years, by Basanta Pratap
Singh (kp 22/08/2019)
Enforce
the plastic ban (rep 21/08/2019)
Everest
region to ban plastic items below 30 microns
from 2020, by Supriya Sharma (rep
20/08/2019), No
plastic bottles and bags in Everest region from
January: Local government to ban the use of
plastics below 30 microns and beverages bottled
in plastic, by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp
22/08/2019)
Metropolitan
city says it will book all those who dump
garbage in public places during the night:
Kathmandu residents say such drives have been
launched in the past as well but with little
success, by Anup Ojha (kp 07/08/2019)
Social
campaigner is beaten up while nabbing litterbugs
in Koteshwor: Garbage throwing on roadside is
rampant during the night, but authorities till
date have paid no heed, by Anup Ojha (kp
03/08/2019)
Plastic
straws are slowly being replaced in Kathmandu’s
restaurants, but a complete switch might take
some time: Following global concern, a few
restaurants in Kathmandu are consciously
limiting their use of plastic straws by
switching to sustainable alternatives, by
Abani Malla (kp 01/08/2019)
KMC
to set up community composting facilities
(ht 28/07/2019)
Capital's
waste remains unattended despite cleaning drive
(rep 28/07/2019)
Waste
management to be regulated (ht 18/07/2019)
Dhangadi
dwells on managing medical waste (kp
13/07/2019)
Kathmandu
is stinking: Do something (rep 02/07/2019)
Irate
locals obstruct garbage vehicles at Sisdol
landfill site (ht 01/07/2019)
Kathmandu
Metropolitan City spent millions on smart
dustbins. No one is using them: The city’s
mayor, while defending the purchase, said
residents were deliberately making him
look bad by not using the trash can, by Anup
Ojha (kp 28/06/2019)
Lack
of efficient garbage disposal and management
system spells trouble for Valley residents this
monsoon: Rains damage the road that leads to
Sisdole landfill site, obstructing garbage
collection from the Valley, by Anup Ojha (kp
25/06/2019)
Unmanaged
hazardous hospital waste is a cause for concern
in Capital: The city authority recently
penalised five state-run hospitals and some
private-run hospitals for disposing of hazardous
hospital waste alongside household waste, by
Arjun Poudel (kp 25/06/2019), Down
in the dumps: Healthcare institutions’ hazardous
practices cannot continue (kp 26/06/2019)
Locals
agitate over proposed dumping site at Dadi Chaur
(ht 12/06/2019)
Lahan-4
residents protest against mismanagement of waste
in the municipality: Garbage not collected for
the past 26 days due to locals’ protest for
relocation of waste management centre, by
Bharat Jargha Magar (kp 11/06/2019)
All
local units in Chitwan using forests and rivers
to dump their waste, by Sabita Shrestha (rep
01/06/2019)
Kathmandu
not prepared to manage its waste in monsoon:
Every day 150 trucks carry waste from 18 local
federal units of Kathmandu Valley and
Banepa to a dumping site at Sisdole, by
Arjun Poudel (kp 29/05/2019)
More
than 10 tonnes garbage collected from Everest
(ht 28/05/2019)
4,000
kg Mt Everest waste brought to Capital: DoT
struggling to bring down dead bodies found
during the cleaning campaign (ht 18/05/2019)
Garbage
disfiguring Muktinath’s pristine surrounding,
by Sushil Babu Thakali (rep 12/05/2019)
KMC
finds new landfill site to dispose of Valley
garbage (rep 04/05/2019)
Major
clean-up
campaign hopes to rid Everest of 10,000 kg
garbage: The campaign will not only bring back
garbage but also the bodies of dead climbers
that litter the world’s highest peak, by
Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp 29/04/2019), 3,000
kg of garbage collected from Mt Everest region
(kp 29/04/2019)
Karnali
flows foul for lack of waste management (ht
28/04/2019)
Haphazard
throwing of recharge cards and tobacco packets
to be controlled, by Anup Ojha and Sanjaya
Lama (kp 21/04/2019)
Army
removes two tons of waste from Everest (rep
20/04/2019) [Make the
mountaineers and their teams responsible! The
destruction of the sensitive environment is not
a trivial offence!], 2,000
kg solid waste collected from Mt Everest region
(ht 22/04/2019)
Plan
to clear Everest of bodies, trash: The base camp
will be set up by the third week of April to
start the mega campaign, by Rajan Pokhrel
(ht 08/04/2019), 10,000
kg garbage targeted (ht 12/04/2019)
Province
5 using rivers as dumping sites, by Rekha
Bhusal (rep 06/04/2019)
Garbage
dumped in Dhading streams (05/04/2019)
The
(re)cycle of waste: Here are the professional
waste management service providers that focus on
resource recovery, by Rose Singh (kp
31/03/2019)
#TrashTag
gaining
momentum: Young Nepalis take up the ‘do-good’
internet challenge of cleaning public places,
taking pictures and posting them online, by
Anup Ojha (kp 13/03/2019)
Exemplary
waste management on Bagmati riverside, by
Biken K Dawadi (rep 20/02/2019)
Large
cities of Province 1 dumping waste in the open
(rep 03/02/2019)
Byas
Municipality making waste management system more
effective (ht 29/01/2019)
That’s
a wrap: Nepal took another big step by declaring
Chitwan National Park a plastic-free zone, by
Tsewang Nuru Sherpa (kp 27/01/2019)
What
ails Kathmandu Valley’s waste management project?
(rep 24/01/2019)
City
authority vows stern action against litterbugs, by
Anup Ojha (kp 23/01/2019)
Police
collect waste as municipal officials boycott work,
by Ritesh Tripathi (rep 08/01/2019)
Urban
Development Ministry preparing design for landfill
site (kp 07/01/2019), MoUD
to construct structure for dumping non-recyclable
waste (ht 07/01/2019)
Plastic
pollution: Let’s pledge to beat it, by Srichchha
Pradhan (ht 24/12/2018)
Piling
up: Nepal’s waste management predicament presents a
number of social and environmental problems, by
Binod Joshi (kp 17/12/2018)
Drowning
in
plastic: Do your bit to eliminate pollution by
pledging to use one less plastic bag everyday; Today,
just in Kathmandu, people use 4,700,000 to 4,800,000
plastic bags daily, by Srichchha Pradhan (kp
14/12/2018)
The
things
we throw away: Garbage management in Kathmandu
requires alternative measures that are less costly,
environment-friendly and sustainable, by Mohan
Guragain (kp 08/12/2018)
KMC
installing 60 smart dustbins in city's major
thoroughfares (rep 28/11/2018)
Those
littering in KMC may face up to 3 months in jail or Rs
100,000 fine, by Shuvam Dhungana (rep 27/11/2018)
From
waste to wealth: For Doko Recyclers, recycling waste
begins at the source: with garbage segregation, by
Bibhu Luitel (kp 26/11/2018)
KMC
to be without a landfill for months: Sisdole landfill
almost full, Banchare Dada site will take 6 months to
open, by Biken K Dawadi (rep 26/11/2018)
Mayor
warns action against slothful staff: KMC garbage
disposal staff’s tardy attitude and ‘politics’ irks
Shakya, by Anup Ojha (kp 20/11/2018)
Biratnagar
Metropolitan City streets littered with garbage
(ht 13/11/2018)
MoU
signing on waste management project delayed, by
Ujjwal Satyal (ht 07/11/2018)
Garbage
woes plague Rajbiraj Municipality (ht 24/10/2018)
People
still lack awareness about waste management (kp
22/10/2018)
Locals
offer 500 ropanis to dump stinking Sisdole, by
Anup Ojha (kp 06/10/2018)
Dumping
method blamed for urban garbage problems (kp
30/09/2018)
Metropolis
starts cleaning drive in all wards ahead of Dashain
(kp 30/09/2018) [And what will
happen after the Hindu festival of Dashain?]
Tax
litterbugs
more: Minister Pandit; He stresses the need to send
out the message to the rest of the world that Nepal is
a beautiful, clean and green country (kp
23/09/2018)
SC
writ seeks solution to city garbage issue (kp
18/09/2018), Case
filed against govt for failing to manage waste (ht
18/09/2018)
Waste
management From trash to treasure, by Sagar Bhatta
(ht 03/09/2018)
Hospitals
not managing waste properly (ht 31/08/2018)
What
will Nepal do with its e-waste? As purchasing power
rises, Kathmandu faces the problem of electronic waste
disposal, by Sonia Awale (nt 31/08/2018)
Municipality
to buy plastic waste (ht 29/08/2018)
Solid
waste a stinking problem: Open burning severely
impacts people’s health, by Chandan Kumar
Mandal (kp 28/08/2018)
Capital
streets free of waste for BIMSTEC: Kathmandu
metropolis deploys four jet machines to clean
the streets (kp 28/08/2018)
Triyuga
Municipality finds landfill site after 22 years,
by Maheshwor Chamling Rai (rep 27/08/2ß18)
Garbage
woes plague Manthali Municipality (ht
25/08/2018)
16
shacks of plastic waste cleared from trekking
route in Nagarkot (kp 22/08/2018)
Five
municipalities collaborate for effective waste
management (ht 18/08/2018)
Locals,
garbage truckers angry at sorry state of Sisdole
landfill site, by Biken K Dawadi (rep
17/08/2018)
Dharan
and Itahari dumping waste recklessly, by
Rohit Rai (rep 12/08/2018)
Garbage
collection begins in Lahan, by Mithilesh
Yadav (rep 12/08/2018)
Garbage
piling up on streets of Kathmandu valley, again (ht
10/08/2018)
Bhairahawa
Waste Management Project in limbo, by Binod
Pariyar (rep 07/08/2018)
KMC
starts three-phase plan to address garbage crisis,
by Biken K Dawadi (rep 05/08/2018)
Lahan's
garbage collected by NC youth wings after 18 days,
by Mithilesh Yadav (rep 05/08/2018)
KMC
to construct ‘new garbage site soon’ (kp
29/07/2018), Garbage
management problem likely to recur after three
months (rep 29/07/2018)
Sustainable
Solution to Waste Disposal Problem, by Kushal
Pokharel (rn 28/07/2018)
Garbage
woes plague Rajbiraj Municipality (ht
27/07/2018)
Garbage
nuisance, by Diya Dhakal (rep 26/07/2018)
Litterbugs
in Tansen to be captured on camera, by Mukti
Prasad Nyaupane (rep 22/07/2018)
Stench
troubles Valley folk as garbage litters streets,
by Anup Ojha (kp 21/07/2018)
Integrated
solid waste management of Kathmandu valley: IBN
board okays PDA with NepWaste (rep 19/07/2018)
‘Garbage
collection will resume only next week’ (kp
16/07/2018), Garbage
piles
to stay on streets for one more week:
Epidemiologists fear outbreak of diseases; Sisdole
landfill has already exceeded capacity; Govt yet
to identify new landfill (kp 16/07/2018), Stinky
affair: Solid waste management in the Capital
warrants serious attention from the govt (kp
17/07/2018), A
tale of stinking hill: Residents suffer as garbage
piles on Valley streets, by Anup Ojha (kp
18/07/2018)
E-waste
pollution: Threat to human health, by Shobha
Dahal (ht 10/07/2018)
KMC
fails to set up alternative landfill site: Sisdole
was originally meant to be a temporary landfill;
the KMC had acquired the site for three years
until 2008 (kp 03/07/2018), KMC
officials sitting on waste management accord since
4 months, by Rudra Pangeni (rep 03/07/2018)
More
than 32,000 kg waste collected from Everest,
by Rajan Pokhrel (ht 01/07/2018) [Make trekkers and ,
especially, mountaineers accountable!]
Waste-to-energy
plant in operation in Nawalparasi (ht
27/06/2018)
Eco-friendly
sanitary pads struggle to find market, by
Krishna Prasain (kp 26/06/2018)
E-waste
alert, by Kshitiz Pokhrel (rep 24/06/2018)
Make
the switch: Our love affair with plastics is toxic
and its time we get rid of it, by Sramika
Rijal (kp 10/06/2018)
A
plastic world: Microplastics in the sea now
outnumber stars in our galaxy. It’s high time we
woke up to the problem, by Valerie Julliand,
David Molden and H.E. Lasse Bjørn Johannessen (kp
05/06/2018), The
last straw: The government, manufacturers,
retailers and consumers need to arrive at
solutions to beat plastic pollution, by Ugan
Manandhar (kp 05/06/2018), Clean
conscience: Government policies to ban plastic is
one thing, using conscience to avoid using them is
another, by Pramisha Thapaliya (kp 06/06/2018)
Garbage
woes plague Rajbiraj (ht 02/06/2018)
Everest
litter worries Khumbu folks, by Rajan Pokhrel
(ht 30/05/2018) [The
government must construct sufficient public
toilets at Everest BC and make the mountaineers
responsible for waste disposal!!], The
real quest: Records on Everest make headlines, but
govt must take steps to keep it clean for
posterity (kp 01/06/2018)
Govt
to punish garbage dumpers (ht 27/05/2018)
Industrial
scale litter: The government’s plastic bans have
been repeatedly sabotaged by big businesses,
by Mukesh Pokhrel (nt 18/05/2018), Virtuous
cycle, by Yuvaraj Shrestha (nt 18/05/2018), Plastic
money: Conservation group pays Rs 1 for every
discarded plastic bottle in Langtang to upcycle
them, by Samuel Johns (nt 18/05/2018)
Living
with rubbish: Garbage was not a problem to the
villagers who were not offended by the sight of it,
by Tim Taylor (kp 15/05/2018)
Plastic
menace: There is need to make concerted efforts
from government, citizens and other stakeholders
to get rid of plastics (ht 24/04/2018)
Rubbish
playgrounds:
Can upcycling help Kathmandu defeat trash? As
Kathmandu overflows with trash, the city is
seeking not just to transform attitudes to
waste—but the waste itself, by Saptarshi Ray
(kp 21/04/2018)
KMC
mulls vending machine for waste mgmt (kp
28/02/2018)
Waste
from Everest region airlifted, by Sabitri
Dhakal (ht 18/03/2018)
IBN,
Nepwaste
sign deal for waste management: Nepwaste will
build a landfill site in Nuwakot and a transfer
station at Teku to manage the solid waste (kp
08/03/2018), IBN,
Nepwaste ink initial pact to manage Valley’s solid
waste (ht 08/03/2018)
Plastic
manufacturers to be brought under law (ht
28/02/2018)
Waste
plagues Dhankuta (ht 14/02/2018)
28
hotels, restaurant operators booked (kp
28/01/2018)
Open
burning
of wastecontributing to rise in air pollution
levels: 28.4 tonnes waste is generated by
hospitals in the valley every day (ht
28/01/2018)
NUDS
proposes complete waste collection coverage for
urban areas (ht 22/01/2018)
Government
lacks laws to address e-waste woes (ht
20/01/2018)
KMC
warns litterbugs with arrest (kp 28/12/2017)
Initiative
taken to construct modern waste processing center,
by Sher Bahadur KC (rep 26/12/2017) [related to
Butwal]
New
landfill site expected to mitigate environment
hazards, by Ram Saran Tamang (kp 25/12/2017)
Waste
management a serious problem in jails of eastern
region, by Amar Khadka (rep 21/12/2017)
174
people punished for throwing garbage on road
(kp 19/12/2017)
Waste
not, want not: Focus on long-term plans along with
immediate ones for sustainable waste management
system, by Reena Chikanbanjar (ht 17/12/2017)
KMC
plans to set up five more garbage transfer centres,
by Anp Ojha (kp 07/12/2017)
KMC
sees Shyame Kholso as alternative to Sisdole
landfill, by Anup Ojha (kp 28/11/2017)
Eternal
chokehold: Extensive efforts must be made to curb
the use of lethal materials like plastic, by
Kedar Karki (kp 19/11/2017)
Tara
Air airlifts waste from Everest region (kp
18/11/2017)
Sisdole
dumping ground nearing its full capacity: Proposed
permanent facility at Banchare Danda nowhere near
complete, by Anup Ojha (kp 03/11/2017)
No
landfill sites for managing carcasses (ht
24/10/2017)
Waste
to be used to produce biogas (ht 16/10/2017)
Garbage
dumped in dolphin conservation area, Yogesh
Rawal (rep 12/10/2017)
Slaughterhouse
waste ill-managed (ht 09/10/2017)
Garbage
truck drivers on strike (kp 07/10/2017), Waste
disposal to resume from today (ht 08/10/2017)
KMC
distributes over Rs 20 million compensation to
Okharpauwa folks (ht 07/10/2017)
Long
delay: The authorities should work in concert and
take immediate steps to manage the garbage (ht
03/10/2017)
Sisdole
people receive KMC’s compensation (kp
28/09/2017)
KMC
preparing to build permanent landfill site at
Bancharedanda (ht 27/09/2017)
KMC
picketed over delay in waste mgmt (kp
19/09/2017)
UN
Environment partnering with LEAD Nepal for waste
management (rep 11/09/2017)
Authorities
fail to manage litter picked up from rivers: Trash
heaps crop up at major thoroughfares of city
(kp 10/09/2017)
Waste
piling up on Valley streets (ht 09/09/2017), Waste
disposal to resume today (ht 10/09/2017), Garbage
collection resumes after deal with Okharpauwa
locals, by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp
11/09/2017)
Okharpauwa
folks turn away waste containers (kp
06/09/2017)
Unmanaged
waste increases health hazards in Sisdole, by
Pooja Bista (rep 05/09/2017)
Okharpauwa
locals continue to obstruct waste disposal (ht
01/09/2017)
Waste
collection resumes after 20 days, by Pooja
Bista (rep 31/08/2017)
Garbage
disposal: Aathmile locals lift obstruction (kp
27/08/2017)
Dhankuta
earns Rs 3 million a year from garbage (kp
23/08/2017)
Garbage
collection obstructed, by Anup Ojha (kp
13/08/2017)
‘Nepal’s
cleanest city’: Why Dhankuta’s solid waste
conundrum is no longer a wasted opportunity,
by Richa Bhattarai (kp 05/08/2017)
Okharpauwa
locals obstruct waste disposal (kp
03/08/2017), Okharpauwa
locals lift obstructions (kp 04/08/2017)
KMC
facing
garbage segregation problem (kp 31/07/2017)
Dirty
Disputes: Politics of waste, by Priyanka
Gurung (rep 28/07/2017)
Ban
on
plastic bags ineffective (ht 17/07/2017), Plastic
bag
ban proves to be just a fanciful idea: Earlier
moves go down the drain, govt fails to bring new
directive; Official says focus must be on raising
awareness about reuse and recycle (kp
28/07/2017)
Waste
management:
Detrimental effects of solid waste in the Everest
region should be curbed in innovative and
efficient ways, by Tsewang Nuru Sherpa (kp
14/07/2017)
City
fathers
demand review of proposed garbage deal (kp
12/07/2017), Waste
mgmt project wins support of Ktm municipal bodies
(rep 12/07/2017)
Rs
219 per family for garbage truck come April,
by Rudra Pangeni (rep 12/07/2017)
Kawasoti
locals
protest municipal decision on dumping site (ht
07/07/2017)
Pokhara-Lekhnath
metropolis
facing garbage woes (ht 25/06/2017)
Everest
cleaning
campaign: French team clears trash (kp
31/05/2017)
Nepal
attends
meeting on hazardous chemicals (kp 06/05/2017)
First
textile
recycling factory set up in Bhojpur, by Bidhya
Rai (kp 28/04/2017)
Ban
on
plastic bags in Valley proves a non-starter
(ht 18/04/2017)
IBN
close
to signing solid waste deal with Nepwaste (kp
09/04/2017)
NTA
stresses
on regulatory framework for e-waste management
(ht 08/04/2017)
Implement
plastic
ban effectively, govt told (ht 21/03/2017)
Waste
contract
likely to be signed this week: Nepali-Finnish
joint venture Nepwaste will be implementing
Package Number 1 of the Kathmandu Valley
Integrated Solid Waste Management Project (kp
14/03/2017)
IBN
close
to signing deal with Nepwaste (kp 15/02/2017)
Govt
agency
mulls using drones to keep an eye on litterbugs
(kp 12/02/2017)
Sisdol
landfill
site row: Okharpauwa VDC put off protest (kp
11/02/2017)
Valley
municipalities
explore new landfill site: 5-member body formed
for joint operation in Banchare Danda, Nuwakot,
by Anup Ojha (kp 07/02/2017)
Garbage
litters
highway forest in Nawalparasi, by Nabin Paudel
(kp 04/02/2017)
Chiefs
of
municipalities in Valley take stock of
Okharpauwa-based landfill site (ht 27/01/2017)
Ex-minister
stresses
proper management of household waste (ht
18/01/2017)
Payment
dispute
delays handover of energy plant (ht
07/01/2017)
Kathmandu
valley
integrated solid waste management project: IBN to
start negotiation with private firms soon, by
Bibek Subedi (kp 05/01/2017)
Govt
to
conduct feasibility study for landfill sites in
Valley (ht 04/01/2017)
Govt
to
enforce segregation of household waste (kp
01/01/2017)
‘Hamro
Lalitpur’
app to keep track of garbage trucks, by Anup
Ojha (kp 31/12/2016)
Integrated
plan
must for effective waste management: Minister
Thapa (kp 18/12/2016)
MoFALD
to
slap litterbugs with fine up to Rs 500: Rules
against tossing waste from vehicles introduced,
by Anup Ojha (kp 16/12/2016), Stiff
penalty
for throwing trash from vehicles (ht
16/12/2016)
New
landfill
site being constructed (ht 10/12/2016)
KMC
collects
Rs 26,500 from litterbugs in fines: Women’s group
active in river clean-up fines a woman
dumping waste into Bagmati at Tilganga on Saturday
morning (kp 04/12/2016)
Value
in
waste: KMC’s pilot project’s success could lead to
similar projects in other municipalities and
involvement of the private sector on a bigger
scale, by Sujata Awale (ht 13/11/2016), Power
generation
from waste to start in a week (ht 18/11/2016),
Operation
of
waste-to-energy plant delayed (ht 23/11/2016),
Teku
energy
plant yet to come into operation (ht
25/12/2016)
Power
generated
from waste for the first time (ht 27/10/2016)
Waste
management problem in Ilam, by Bhim Chapagain
(rep 20/10/2016)
Litterbugs
beware:
KMC may be on to you (kp 19/10/2016)
Fines
for
not segregating household waste at source (ht
18/10/2016)
Rampant
dumping
of garbage at Bhateri pollutes Madi River (ht
17/10/2016)
Side
effects
of waste: Nepal needs to assess the long-term
impacts of waste-to-energy initiatives (kp
14/10/2016)
Despite
ban,
use of plastic bags rampant (ht 02/10/2016)
Solid
waste
management: Municipalities asked to implement act
pronto (kp 25/09/2016)
IBN
to
sign Rs8b waste management contract (kp
21/09/2016)
Several
organisations
take part in nationwide clean-up campaign (ht
18/09/2016)
KMC
fits
waste-to-energy plant in Teku (ht 06/09/2016),
Waste-to-power
project
at final stage, by Anup Ojha (kp 09/09/2016),
Festivals,
public
holidays delay launch of waste-to-energy plant
(ht 14/09/2016) [? Reduce
the number of public Hindu holidays dramatically!
We are no longer living in the Middle Ages!],
Waste-to-power
plant
set to start operation (kp 21/09/2016), Power
generation
from waste to begin only after Dashain (ht
01/10/2016), KMC
starts
generating gas from waste (ht 07/10/2016)
Waste-to-power
machines
finally arrive in Birgunj , by Pramod Kumar
Tandan (ht 21/08/2016)
Nepal
lacks
e-waste management laws (ht 07/08/2016)
Municipalities
told
to enforce plastic ban (ht 05/08/2016)
From
waste
to use: More innovative methods of turning the
wastes to use should also be learned from the
experiences of other countries (ht 05/08/2016)
KMC
importing
waste-to-energy equipment, by Pramod Kumar
Tandan (ht 04/08/2016)
Living
amidst
filth, by Roshan Sharma (Development and
Cooperation, August 2016)
UN
Park
turns into a garbage dump (ht 18/07/2016)
Ban
on
production and use of plastic bags comes into
effect (ht 17/07/2016)
Landslides
obstruct garbage transport (ht 17/07/2016)
KMC
to
generate electricity from waste materials (ht
16/07/2016)
Govt
to
resume plastic ban drive: Citing poor monitoring
for the failure of the previous ban, the govt
has decided to enforce the regulations
strictly this time (kp 04/07/2016)
IBN
to
sign agreement to manage valley’s waste:
Nepwaste will implement the project in Kathmandu
and neighbouring VDCs, while Clean Valley will
work in Lalitpur, Kirtipur, Bhaktapur, Madhyapur
Thimi and adjoining VDCs, by Bibek Subedi
(kp 23/06/2016)
Cleanliness
is
godliness, by Kalu Maila (rep 03/06/2016)
Faecal
sludge
mgmt project: DDCs told to allocate land (kp
22/05/2016)
Plastic
ain’t
fantastic, by Sneha Pandey (rep 06/05/2016)
Effective
garbage
management, by Priyanka Gurung (rep
08/04/2016)
Dangerous
rubbish:
E-waste is adding a new problem to Nepal’s
already mismanaged and overburdened garbage
disposal system, by Lokmani Rai (nt
01/04/2016)
Naya
Shakti
cleans up Boudha area (kp 27/03/2016)
Faecal
sludge
treatment plant comes into effect: The plant has
the capacity to treat sludge generated by septic
tanks of around 200 households every day (kp
24/03/2016)
Naya
Shakti
launches city clean-up drive (kp 20/03/2016)
‘Power
from
organic waste in 3 months’: Around 300 tonnes of
organic waste is produced in the Valley daily
(kp 18/03/2016)
Govt
to
act tough on plastic ban violators: Says it had
intentionally ignored use of plastic bags after
earthquakes last year (ht 27/02/2016)
Despite
ban,
use of plastic bags rampant in Valley, by
Sanskriti Acharya (rep 10/02/2016)
The
alchemists
of waste: As more and more people come to
understand the value that can be created out of
waste, many small companies similar to Biocomp
Nepal are cropping up everywhere, by Sneha
Pandey (nt 29/01/2016)
KMC
launches
Integrated Waste Management Project (ht
28/01/2016)
KMC
project
to convert waste into energy: Metropolis chief
doesn’t have high hopes in EU-partnered
undertaking, by Gaurav Thapa (kp 21/01/2016)
Plastic
waste
can be converted into fuel (ht 15/01/2016)
Disaster
waste
mgmt policy awaits Cabinet approval, by
Gaurav Thapa (kp 22/11/2015)
Waste
to
energy: Construction of biogas plants can
contribute to energy security (kp
06/11/2015)
74.5
metric
tonnes of highly toxic pesticides disposed
(ht 05/11/2015)
Fuel
crisis:
KMC unable to remove garbage, by Anup Ojha
(kp 01/11/2015), Fuel
crisis
hinders garbage collection, by Riwaj Rai
(rep 02/11/2015)
Martadi
streets
littered with household wastes (ht
28/10/2015)
Lack
of
fuel affects garbage collection in valley,
by Riwaj Rai (rep 17/10/2015)
Down
in
the dumps: Solid waste management in the Valley
requires serious attention from the govt (kp
21/09/2015)
KMC
to
levy waste disposal fee on municipalities
(ht 14/09/2015)
KMC
finally
clears garbage collected at Teku station (ht
10/09/2015)
Teku
transfer
solution: KMC vows to push waste on time, by
Anup Ojha (kp 09/09/2015)
Banning
plastic
bags remains a challenge (kp 23/08/2015)
Medical
waste
pollutes Tinau, by Amrita Anamol (kp
23/08/2015)
Hospital
waste
dumped into river proving fatal, by Raju
Adhikari (rep 18/08/2015)
Plastic
bag
ban still a burning issue?, by Karuna
Neupane Subedi (ht 16/08/2015)
Management
of
post-disaster debris poses challenge (ht
13/08/2015)
Electronic
waste
management: Separate policy needs to be
formulated (ht 11/08/2015)
Banish
the
bag: The government needs to continue to monitor
the ban on plastic bags (kp 07/08/2015)
Govt
steps
up monitoring on plastic ban (kp 04/08/2015)
Compensation
up
for animal attacks (kp 28/07/2015)
Govt
to
restart plastic-free KTM campaign (kp
27/07/2015), Ban
on
plastic bags to intensify (ht 27/07/2015)
Plan
to
levy waste mgmt surcharge on manufacturers,
by Gaurav Thapa (kp 03/07/2015), KMC
preparing
to bring new
provision to curb littering (ht 03/07/2015)
Experts
call
for converting urban waste into clean energy
(ht 19/06/2015)
Environmental
battle
of the new age: Though the story is different
elsewhere, Nepal has not caught up with the idea
of e-waste management, by Priyanka Gurung
(rep 05/06/2015)
KMC
to
take two more days to clear garbage (ht
01/05/2015)
OAG
finds
fault in city waste management (ht
17/04/2015)
KMC
launches
apps to receive garbage complaint (ht
14/04/2015), ‘Clean
KTM’
app helps city officials manage waste, by
Chahana Sigdel (kp 18/04/2015)
Plastic
ban
coming into effect tomorrow (ht 13/04/2015),
Plastic
bag
ban in valley: Six govt teams to monitor
implementation (kp 14/04/2015), Plastic-free
city:
Ban on plastic bags is first step in our dream
of a clean and green Kathmandu free of hazardous
wastes, by Sandhya Regmi (rep 14/04/2015), Valley
announced
plastic bag-free zone (kp 15/04/2015), Many
oblivious
of govt move: Stakeholders say it will take some
time for its full implementation (ht
15/04/2015), Officials
seize
plastic bags (kp 16/04/2015), Govt
teams
monitor plastic ban (ht 15/04/2015), FNCCI
urges
government to roll back its decision to ban
polythene bags (ht 17/04/2015), Plastic-free
new
year, not easy: “Only a blanket ban will work,
making exceptions will make it impossible to
enforce”, by Sahina Shrestha (nt
17/04/2015), Traders,
consumers
demand alternative, by Anup Ojha (kp
18/04/2015), Denizens
facing
hard time managing household waste, by Some
Nath Ghimire (ht 19/04/2015), Heavy
fine
for plastic users, distributors (ht
21/04/2015), Govt
‘enforcing’plastic
ban strongly (ht 24/04/2015), To
bag
or not to bag, by Priyanka Gurung (rep
24/04/2015)
Indian
Army
team to remove tons of Everest trash: 30-member
group leaving for Lukla today, to bring down
approximately 4,000 kg rubbish (ht
11/04/2015)
Garbage
at
Teku transfer station creating public nuisance
(rep 10/04/2015)
SC
‘favours’
plan to ban plastic bags (kp 08/04/2015), SC
refuses
interim order on plastic ban (ht
08/04/2015), Garbage
in,
garbage out: The ban on plastic bags is
well-intentioned, but it is enforcement that
matters (kp 09/04/2015)
KMC
to
distribute waste segregation bins to 500
households of Ward No 9 (ht 04/04/2015)
Mess
of
a mountain: Hauling trash off Everest is a
Himalayan task but somebody’s got to do it
(kp 03/04/2015)
Managing
waste
becoming a challenge: Capital generating 500
tonnes of garbage every day, say KMC,
stakeholders (ht 03/04/2015)
Pokhara
locals
included in waste management (ht 27/03/2015)
Ban
on
polythene bags from April 14 (ht
23/03/2015), Govt’s
New
Year resolve: Polythene bag-free Valley (kp
24/03/2015)
Waste
management:
Govt warns of action against those creating
obstruction (ht 21/03/2015)
Manage
waste
on your own: KMC to public (ht 14/03/2015),
City
roads
and roundabouts littered with garbage: KMC
hasn’t collected waste since Thursday after
employees refused to work demanding security
(ht 15/03/2015), City
reeks
as
KMC staff raise stink about loss: Metropolis
employees have not collected garbage since
Thursday (ht 16/03/2015), Valley’s
waste
collection resumes (kp 17/03/2015), KMC
resumes
garbage collection inside city: Finnish and
Indian companies deployed to study state of
waste dumped at Sisdole (ht 17/03/2015), Okharpauwa
locals
agree to let KMC dump garbage (ht
18/03/2015)
KMC-Sisdole
folk
row hits waste mgmt (kp 13/03/2015), Okharpauwa
locals
obstruct garbage dumping (rep 13/03/2015)
Plastic
waste
exported to India (ht 11/03/2015)
Teku
Waste
Transfer Station still to clear garbage (ht
08/03/2015)
40
tonnes
garbage collected (kp 01/03/2015)
Rupees
from
rubbish: Private companies are stepping in to
manage and make money from Kathmandu’s garbage,
by
Sahina Shrestha (nt 27/02/2015)
Sisdole
locals
obstruct garbage disposal (kp 24/02/2015), Okharpauwa
locals
obstruct waste disposal at Sisdole (ht
25/02/2015), Okharpauwa
locals’
protest affecting waste management (ht
26/02/2015), Waste
disposal
resumes (kp 28/02/2015)
Students’
waste
mgmt concept tops Idea Fest, by Gaurav Thapa
(kp 22/02/2015)
Hamri
Bahini
sells 100,000 ‘green’ bags, raises Rs 5m, by
Gaurav Thapa (kp 21/02/2015)
Govt
ups
drive to ban plastics bags in Valley (ht
15/02/2015)
Awareness
about
waste management (ht 14/02/2015)
Waste
management
plan gathers momentum (ht 12/02/2015)
IBN
finally
selects 2 firms for DPR on Valley waste (rep
12/02/2015)
Municipalities
urged
to promote waste segregation (rep
07/02/2015)
New
biogas
programme launched (kp 04/02/2015)
Waste
management:
Govt plans large-scale biogas plants in cities
(kp 29/01/2015)
Manthali
reeking
with stench as garbage remains unmanaged (ht
25/01/2015)
Govt
against
landfill in new municipalities (kp
24/01/2015)
Kirtipur
Municipality
dumping garbage into Bagmati River, by
Sangeet Dangroula (rep 24/01/2015)
Government
to
urge officials to avoid plastic bags (kp
15/01/2015)
Govt
seeks
traders’ help to ban plastic bag use (kp
08/01/2015), Bid
to
rid Valley of plastics flips manufacturers’ lid:
Section of business community flays move, govt
says firm on decision to ban them (ht
08/01/2015)
Govt
sets
parameters for incinerators (ht 03/01/2015)
Litter
louts
findnew trash bins inflower pots (ht
03/01/2015)
Bhrikuti
Mandap
filled with waste materials (ht 03/01/2015) |