KATHMANDU, Feb 26: The Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC)'s Environment Management Department has halted waste collection from four hospitals starting from Sunday following a monitoring inspection of the waste management of the health institutions.

KATHMANDU, Feb 14: Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) has decided to suspend garbage collection services at Kanti Children's Hospital until further arrangements are made after the KMC monitored the hospital on Tuesday.

KATHMANDU, July 18:   The locals of Banchare Danda obstructed the dumping of garbage at the landfill site on Tuesday as well. According to the Solid Waste Management Association of Nepal (SWMAN), none of the vehicles carrying garbage from Kathmandu metropolis were able to reach the landfill site due to the obstruction by the locals.

KATHMANDU, May 27: The garbage collection of Kathmandu Valley will not be halted even during the rainy season, thanks to the blacktopped road up to the landfill site in Banchare Danda.

KATHMANDU, September 4: Although garbage collection resumed in the Kathmandu Valley a few days ago, the major thoroughfares of the Valley are still littered by solid waste.

Valley's waste collection resumes

March 29, 2020 11:25 am

KATHMANDU, March 29: Lately Ghanashyam Adhikari has been waking up with many questions wandering in his head. When the major question is 'when shall this lockdown end', the other question is when will the sanitation workers and garbage men come for garbage collection?

KMC fitting 1,800 CCTV cameras

October 6, 2018 02:30 am

KATHMANDU, Oct 6: The collection of garbage is a perennial problem in the Kathmandu Valley. While the collection of garbage is sometimes halted due to obstructions on the road leading to Sisdole, where the only landfill site is located, in many cases garbage remains littered in a number of collection centers due to 'laggard' cleaning workers of the metropolis.