KATHMANDU, April 3: Gharpajhong Rural Municipality of Mustang is set to ban the use of beer bottles. In a notice issued by the rural municipality, it is mentioned that the use of glass bottles of beer will be prohibited from April 14.
The use of beer bottles has been banned due to problems in their management. Gharapjhong Rural Municipality covers Marfa of Mustang, wards 8 and 9 of Tukuche and Jomsom.
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The rural municipality has requested hotels, shops, tourists and locals within the rural municipality not to use glass bottles of beer. According to Rural Municipality Chairman Mohan Singh Lalchan, the glass bottles of beer will not be sold in the village, nor can they be reused. He said that the waste has increased due to lack of management.
"Since our transportation from here is very expensive. Even scrap collectors don’t take the glass bottle and there was no point in putting them in the landfill site. Can beer be used," Chairman Lalchan said. Locals and tourists can use glass bottles when drinking alcohol other than beer. He said that as beer can also be found in cans, the use of bottles has been banned.
Chairman Lalchan said that a landfill site is being constructed for the management of non-perishable waste and preparations are being made to sell the recyclable waste through scraps collector. According to Lalchan, most of the local Marfa liquor produced in Gharpazhong is exported outside the country.
