The KMC believes that 65 percent of the garbage produced at households is organic, which can be managed at the household-level through the use of compost bins.[break]
“The city will be much cleaner if the 65 percent of the garbage do not come on the streets,” Environment Division Chief of KMC, Santaram Pokhrel said. The KMC sold 800 bins last year. The bins are of 250 liters capacity and one bin is sufficient for a household with 8 members for a year.
Pokherl said the metropolis will encourage the use of compost bins by providing incentives. The number of bins KMC plans to sell this year is not sufficient to stop the garbage from coming to the streets.
But, Pokhrel said that if the demand for the bins increased, the KMC will buy them in bulk through bidding process. “We will also promote the bins in communities. If communities as a whole come to buy the bins, we will give them more discount,” Rabinman Shrestha, section chief of the division, said. The KMC said the office will also provide training and necessary kit for smell-free composting.
Pokhrel also said that the KMC will build some community compost plants in open spaces. He also revealed that the compost plant will be used to produce bio-gas.
“We have successful stories of the community compost plants,” he added. The KMC has already built compost plants in Hadigaun, Siddhartha Banasthali and in Ratopool.
The plant in Ratopool has been producing bio-gas. The KMC said that local NGOs would support the communities to operate the community compost plants.
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