Tag: #garbage
Articles tagged with #garbage
Kathmandu’s flood exposes garbage crisis
The rivers threw trash right back at city dwellers who had dumped them
No smoke without fire in Kathmandu
Photo: ALEX PROIMOS/WIKIMEDIA COMMONSPerhaps the most overlooked source of the tiny particulate matter that makes Kathmandu’s air so hazardous…
Breathing can kill you
Vehicles are one of the biggest emitters of PM2.5 and other pollutants in Kathmandu. Photos: AMIT MACHAMASIIt is that time of the year again…
Happy New Air
Photo: AMIT MACHAMASIOn Thursday morning, Nepali Times photographer Amit Machamasi was greeted with a shocking sight when he drove up to…
Garbage in, garbage out
Photo: AMIT MACHAMASIThe good people of Okharpauwa in Nuwakot finally signed a ceasefire agreement with the litterbugs of Kathmandu last week to…
A load of rubbish
Kathmandu Valley's only landfill site Sisdole has reached its maximum capacity. All photos: AMIT MACHAMASINepal’s capital stank for more than a…
Nepali ultra-marathoner’s anti-litter drive
One of the best and nearest hiking trails from Kathmandu is the Champadevi-Chandragiri walk – it offers a splendid view of the Himalaya as well…
Too many mules on the Everest trail
Mule and mani wall. Photos: ALTON C BYERSThe Sherpas reportedly have a saying that “there’s only one Everest,” meaning that because Everest is…
Everest fights back
(against garbage and bad press)
Everest Postmortem
Illustration: SUBHAS RAIEver since the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India determined that the world’s tallest mountain was Peak XV located on…
Upscaling Upcycling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byB2UFWlCs4&feature=youtu.beWhen actress, fashion designer and, more recently, the director of her debut film…
What will Nepal do with its e-waste?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxID1RV9zsg&feature=youtu.beHeaps of discarded CRT monitors and keyboards are stacked one above the other. Tube…
A Plastic republic
An integral part of modern lifestyle and the global market, plastic is an essential component in the latest gadgets and luxury goods, and in…
Industrial scale litter
The government’s plastic bans have been repeatedly sabotaged bybig businesseshttps://youtu.be/VP-vD3sJbXUTwo years ago, just after the…