Chandannath Municipality, the only municipality in Jumla, has started processing plastic and lead waste. A recycling center has been established within the municipality to process plastic and lead waste.
The municipality has said that the collection and recycling of plastic and lead waste has been started as a negative message has been spread.
From the 14th to the 18th of January last month, the municipality studied the situation of plastic and lead waste and collected waste from 160 places within the city, including hotels, government offices, health institutions, commercial places, religious places, schools and public places.
It was found that 79 percent of the total garbage collected in the city comes from the citizens' houses. It was found that 9 percent of the waste comes from health institutions, 7 percent from religious places and 5 percent from commercial places.
It was found that one kg of waste is being produced daily on an average from the households. In the municipality where 6 thousand 800 tons of waste is produced daily, 16 percent of the waste was plastic. Laxmichandra Neupan, Head of Garbage Management Branch, said that the municipality is involved in plastic waste management.
has been used to process plastic waste by purchasing a plastic exclusion and shredding machine from the National Innovation Center. The machine purchased for 8 lakh 98 thousand 350 rupees was tested from last March.
After one week operator training, two operators are running the machine regularly. City chief Rajusinh Kathayat said that the machine was brought to Jumla after consultation with Mahavir Pun. "It is very difficult to remove the garbage in the city," said Chief Kathayat, "This machine is enough to manage plastic waste." It will happen.' He suggested the city dwellers to classify the garbage.
'The machine will systematically collect and classify the plastic waste that is thrown randomly,' he said, 'This will give relief to keep it clean, green and clean.'
The main problems are that the operation and maintenance of the machine is expensive, the necessary materials are only available outside the district, the safety of the operators is weak and there is a lack of sufficient manpower and basic infrastructure.
branch chief Neupane said that a special procedure is needed to manage the collection and management of plastic and lead waste. Until now, Chandannath Municipality has Till February 27, 2081/82, 2 lakh 51 thousand 600 revenue has been collected by collecting garbage.
There is a plan to collect data on families who do not use or reduce plastic and encourage them, encourage students to collect plastic, provide a copy and pen in exchange for every 5 kg of plastic, and give other citizens 10 rupees per kg in cash or a gift with a municipal symbol .
The municipality has also put forward a plan to build benches and desks from recycled plastic and place them in public places, conduct radio jingles, awareness campaigns and plastic collection programs for plastic reduction, completely ban the sale, distribution and use of plastic less than 40 microns, conduct an orientation program on plastic and lead waste management at the ward and municipal level, and collect plastic from other municipalities and use it with some revenue for reuse.
