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Dr Dhundi Raj Pathak

(An individual SWM specialist, the author holds PhD in geoenvironmental engineering. He currently teaches GIS and solid waste management and landfill engineering.)
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Resolving Kathmandu Valley’s solid waste problems

Published On: August 28, 2021 07:00 AM NPT By: Dr Dhundi Raj Pathak

The waste collectors can make a schedule for waste collection. They can collect only biodegradable waste on one day and non-biodegradable waste on another day. It will help in maintaining a proper waste segregation system; otherwise this becomes only a propaganda campaign. No formal municipal waste recovery and recycling programs are practiced at present.