Kathmandu. Kathmandu Metropolitan City has urged the residents of the metropolis not to burn garbage in open spaces. The metropolis has urged them not to burn garbage indiscriminately as the smoke emitted from plastic waste is harmful to human health.
Sarita Rai, head of the Metropolitan City’s Environmental Management Department, said that polluted air is most harmful to children, senior citizens, and those with respiratory and heart diseases.
She urged the residents of the metropolis to dispose of all types of garbage in the vehicles coming to collect garbage from the metropolis. Department Head Rai has also urged industries to comply with the ‘Pollution Control Standards, 2081’.
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