Officials at the department believe garbage production can be significantly cut back if all households in metropolis start using separate bins to segregate organic and inorganic wastes they generate. [break]
The metropolis will also offer 50 percent subsidies to manufacturers."We will encourage people to place organic and inorganic bins in their households," Rabin Man Shrestha, an officer at the environment department, said.
People can also buy such bins at 50 percent discount from the market. The metropolis has allocated Rs 4 million for the trash bins in the budget of the ongoing fiscal year. Shrestha concedes that 2,000 bins are too less to yield result from 100,000 households in the metropolis. "Due budget constraints, the metropolis cannot distribute such bins on a large scale," he added.
The department has also been encouraging metropolis dwellers to start rooftop farming. Over 150 city residents have already received training on such farming and about 500 will receive training soon, the KMC said. KMC´s Executive Officer Laxman Aryal said that such farming will help tackle the problem of deteriorating environment and revive the greenery in the Kathmandu city.
With the increasing urbanization, real estate business and land plotting, farmland and greenery have been shrinking rapidly in the Valley. Aryal said that such farming will help to deal with chronic problems of garbage disposal that has been a major nuisance for the metropolis for years. He claimed that rooftop farming has gained popularity in big cities of developed countries.
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