Tag: #waste management
Articles tagged with #waste management
Kathmandu’s flood exposes garbage crisis
The rivers threw trash right back at city dwellers who had dumped them
Nepal still mixing garbage with politics
Kathmandu’s chronic garbage problem is magnified by politicians trying to score brownie points
Cleaning up high places
Managing solid waste in the Nepal Himalaya with a case study of Langtang National Park
Waste to value with biogas in Nepal
Photos: SUSHMITA DULALNepal is currently experiencing a combined economic-ecological crisis: rising petroleum imports and a deteriorating…
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…
COPOUT at COP26
The south face of Mt Gauri Shankar (7,134m) on the border between Nepal and China is bare rock, and shows how dramatically the snowline has…
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…
Managing Everest’s waste problem
Typical garbage pit outside of a village, usually out of sight of the main trekking trail. Landfills are particularly problematic in the alpine…
The COVID-19 plastic pandemic
Photo: BIKRAM RAIThe coronavirus pandemic was a respite for nature everywhere. The air was cleaner, trekking trails were pristine, the summit of…
Everest fights back
(against garbage and bad press)