Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) Mayor Balendra Shah (Balen) has asked the residents of KMC to separate the waste into biodegradable and non-biodegradable while disposing them to the garbage collectors.
Amid a waste classification while disposing campaign organized by the Department of Environment and Agriculture on Saturday Mayor Shah made this request to the residents of KMC. The metropolis had made it mandatory for business and households concerned to separate the waste into biodegradable and non-biodegradable while disposing them. The rule will come into effect from July 17, Sunday.
From Sunday, the metropolis is collecting the biodegradable and non-biodegradable waste on different days and in different vehicles. The metropolis will be collecting biodegradable waste on Sunday and Wednesday and non-biodegradable on Monday and Firday. The residents should be disposing the waste to the collectors accordingly.
Sarita Rai, chief of KMC’s environment department, informed that Rs. 500 would be charged to those who would not segregate the waste while handing over the waste to the collectors.
The Garbage Management Act issued by the government in 2068 BS and the Environment and Natural Resources Protection Act issued by KMC in 2077 BS were implemented in order to make the city sanitary and clean.
In the law, there is a provision that the waste producer is responsible for separating the waste at the source. According to this, producers should be classified into biodegradable and non-biodegradable waste in separate containers.
The awareness campaign was aimed at inner wards of KMC. In that, the citizens were informed about the waste classification campaign of the metropolis by reaching Ward Nos. 18, 19, 20, 24 and 25. The information was repeatedly announced by miking in the core areas: Indrachok, Makhan, Yatkha, Naradevi, Bangemudha, Chhhetrapati and others.
Concluding the campaign rally, chairman of Ward No. 25 Rajesh Dangol urged the ward residents to support the cleanliness campaign for urban civilisation.
Chief Rai informed that the department had completed the awareness campaign in Ward Nos. 12, 21, 22, 23 and other areas on Friday.
The metropolis has urged the citizens to make manure or compost from biodegradable waste and use it in the garden or rooftop farming. Likewise, it had informed the citizens that non-biodegradable waste could be reused or could be made a source of earning by selling recyclable waste to waste collectors.
Source : TRN,
