At a time when the challenges of waste management are increasing across the country, Rapti Rural Municipality of Dang has started tile production from waste. According to the policy of the municipality to seal the waste, tile production has started in collaboration with the local government and the private sector.
In Rapti Rural Municipality-2, Punyapur, the production of materials such as tiles and interlocks has been started from plastic waste. In accordance with the policy of the municipality to seal the waste, the local government and the private sector have started producing materials such as tiles, interlocks and bricks from the waste.
Rapti Rural Municipality and Eco Family Private Limited Hetauda have started producing materials such as tiles and interlocks from waste by managing the waste, said Lal Bahadur Chaudhary, supervisor of Eco Family Pvt Ltd. According to him, although there is a plan to produce tiles, interlocks and stitches from plastic such as noodles, biscuits, bhola, gutka, which are thrown away as waste, tiles have been produced in the first phase. The price of tile produced by
is Rs. 35. However, it is arranged to give 20 percent discount to the citizens within the rural municipality, according to the village pakila. Kamalapati Chowdhury, the vice president of the rural municipality, says that after the challenge of waste management in Rapti rural municipality, which is also the capital of Lumbini province, the rural municipality has made a policy and made a long-term plan.
According to the agreement made in August 2079, the municipality collects waste and delivers it to the source center and the company is doing the work of sorting the remaining waste and producing plastic materials and organic fertilizers. Deputy Chairman Chaudhary said that the rural municipality has already invested more than 22 million rupees for the production of plastic materials from waste as part of the campaign to build a clean and green municipality.
Two houses have been built for land fence and resource center with that amount. It has been agreed that the company will sell the waste that is not used here as garbage and the municipality will collect export tax from it. Eight tractors of garbage are being collected daily from Rapti Rural Municipality, which has nine wards. 18 people have been employed to work from waste collection to classification. Among them, eight people are placed on behalf of the company, while 10 people are placed on behalf of the rural municipality.
