Baglung. Baglung Municipality has implemented a plan to collect waste from the source within the city and process it at a landfill site before selling it. The municipality has already built a model landfill site to reuse the waste collected in the city area and process other waste. To solve the problem of waste management that has been going on for half a decade in the long term, the municipality has given the responsibility of waste processing to Equality Campaign Nepal.
The municipality, which is facing challenges in waste management, has signed a waste management agreement with Equality Campaign Nepal, said the municipality’s mayor, Basanta Kumar Shrestha. According to him, 15,000 dustbins have been distributed throughout the market for waste collection from the source.
The municipal office has stated that Chandrakant Poudel of the Equality Campaign and Baglung Municipality Mayor Shrestha have signed an agreement to build a model waste processing center at a cost of Rs 367.7 million.
Shrestha says that the waste generated from the processing will cost Rs 367.7 million to manage the waste, with the municipality bearing five percent and the campaign bearing 95 percent of the financial burden. Stating that the waste will be managed at Maldhunga in Baglung-1, where it is currently dumped, he informed that the processed waste management center will be developed as a study, observation and tourist site.
Mayor Shrestha informed that some of the equipment and vehicles needed for the center will be collected through a campaign. He said that the goals set for waste management are to prevent the dumping site from becoming smelly and to make money from waste by reusing it.
‘In the context of the increasing challenge of waste management, the municipality has started working together with partner bodies. The municipality has already built a waste processing center at a cost of Rs 20 million. The waste processing work will begin as soon as possible,’ Shrestha said. ‘We will now develop the waste processing center as a tourist center by making it odor-free.’
The municipality has already started the work of waste collection by providing three types of buckets. Mayor Shrestha said that work will also be done to form an eco club for children and raise awareness among parents about how to collect the waste. He mentioned that there are plans to make the city pollution-free, build a biogas plant and build a swimming pool near the waste management in the coming days.
The municipality has already built some structures to manage hazardous waste including biodegradable, non-biodegradable, and lead-based waste by creating three sections at the said location. Since 2054 BS, the municipality had dumped garbage on the banks of the Kaligandaki for a decade. When biodegradable and non-biodegradable waste was dumped in one place, 10 ropanis of land here was filled. The municipal office has stated that the goal is to compost biodegradable waste and reuse non-biodegradable plastic waste.
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