Garbage started being sold in Tamghas, water sources and settlements
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Gulmi. Garbage has started being sold in Tamghas, the district headquarters of Gulmi. The Municipal Development and Environment Sanitation Committee has started selling the non-biodegradable waste collected from Tamghas to the Palpa Nepalese West Bank.
As per the agreement, plastic bottles will be sold at Rs 10 per kg, Red Bull bottles at Rs 80, HDP plastic at Rs 8 per kg, water bottles at Rs 10, iron bottles at Rs 15, glass bottles at Rs 1 and tins at Rs 5 per kg.TAG_OPEN_div_43 The Town Development and Environment Protection Agency collects waste from 1,765 households of ward no 1, 2, 7, 8, 9 and some parts of Resunga municipality.
The committee, which has two tractors, two drivers and two helpers, collects garbage from the market six days a week except Saturdays and dumps it at the dumping site.TAG_OPEN_div_41 According to the committee, two tonnes of kitchen waste will be collected daily.
The bank has hired three workers to separate the waste. The bank pays them according to the amount of garbage. The committee has earned Rs 20,000 from the sale of four truckloads of garbage from Gulmi in a month, said Chairperson Ram Prasad Panthi.
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The water source will be clean after the garbage is sold. When the garbage was not sold, it was burnt in the village. As a result, Okhreni, Udindhunga, Jeep Park, Bedukharka and other villages were always foul.
The stench used to spread on the road from Tamghas to Okhreni to Bedukharka, Bhanpani and other villages. Meena Khatri, a local, said that the foul smell has now disappeared.
There is also a water tank at the bottom of the garbage dumping area.TAG_OPEN_div_31 The water is collected in the tank of the Tamghas Mega Drinking Water Consumers and the people of Tamghas Bazaar drink it. Many questions were also raised on the drinking water committee due to the lack of proper management of garbage. Saraswati Sartunge, a local consumer, said that the source of drinking water will be purified after the waste is sold.
Resunga Municipality has provided support for the waste management.TAG_OPEN_div_29 The waste management and sale started only after the municipality fixed the land for Rs 13.80 lakh. Out of this amount, Rs 7 lakh has been paid so far and Rs 6.80 lakh is yet to be paid.
Mayor Khildhwaj Panthi said it was the responsibility of the municipality to keep the market clean and the committee supported it.TAG_OPEN_div_27 He expressed happiness that the committee has earned income from the sale of garbage on the one hand and the market has been cleaned on the other. The municipality has been providing Rs 10 lakh as grant to the committee annually for the management of garbage.
Similarly, Panthi said that there is a plan to make compost from the degradable waste.TAG_OPEN_div_25 So far, the degradable waste has been buried in a stream near Okhreni. He said that work will be started to convert the waste into compost at a cost of around Rs 14 lakh.
} “We are coordinating with the municipality and managing the degradable waste will make the city more beautiful,” said Panthi, adding, “The role of all is equally important to make the city beautiful.” The Town Development and Environment Sanitation Committee has been managing waste in Tamghas since 2061 BS.
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