RECPHEC

The Kathmandu valley is rich in socio-cultural diversity with infinite historic, artistic, and cultural interests. The significance of these assets of the city is diminishing these days. There is adverse impact on environment and human health due to unmanaged solid waste. Lack of sustainable and clean technology to manage solid waste of the city is having a significant impact on Urban Health. The problem of solid waste management must be addressed to improve the environmental health. The health effects are linked to occupational hazards and to exposures of local poor populations to the contaminated waste. The current status of the waste management in the Kathmandu valley needs an urgent attention, and this project targets to take a ZERO Waste Approach to minimize the impact of waste in urban health sector.

Though the Government of Nepal is making its effort to manage it properly, it seems inadequate. However local NGOs and private bodies involved in the management mostly focused on the collection, but continued to dump in environmentally unsound way. It is to be noted that the waste is a resource in disguise. Solid waste (garbage), hazardous waste, liquid waste and other waste would have produced resources such as energy, compost, water and reusable materials. Zero waste is an approach to make an endeavor for zero solid and hazardous waste, zero emissions to air, water and land, zero waste in production and administrative activities, zero waste in product life, zero toxics and 100 per cent resource efficiency. Hence, the project aims to make a community in Lalitpur Sub-metropolitan City an environmentally sound livable city, a model eco-city.

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