Kathmandu, April 3: An organization, Biocomp Nepal, has collected 143.55 metric tonnes of waste. The organization collected such amount of garbage after cleaning 16 rivers and rivulets in the Kathmandu Valley. The waste was collected through partnership of organisations–‘People in Need’ and ‘Clean Up Nepal’.
This initiative was made possible with active participation of more than 100 volunteers, members of local communities, Nepal Police, students from different educational institutions, according to the organizer.
The river clean-up campaign was launched under ‘River Plus Project’. The project has set a target of collecting low quality plastics and recycling it. It has the target of reducing plastic pollution especially in Bagmati, Bishnumati and Manohara rivers.
At a programme organized here today, Chief Executive Officer of Biocomp Nepal, Maarten Nijhof, shared that the low quality plastics were collected from houses, industries, rivers, roads and garbage disposal centres.
The collected low quality plastics would be transported to the zero- emission plastic recycle plant recently established at the Special Economic Zone, Siraha and recycled into plastic composite board. Under the campaign, Biocomp Nepal collected 80 metric tonnes of low quality plastic and recycled it.
