Abstract:Municipal solid waste in the Kathmandu Valley and emerging cities has been a burden for the government of Nepal for over a decade. Nepal, these days, is notorious in illegal dumping of solid waste on riverbanks and crossroads at urban cities creating a serious environmental and public health problem besides destroying the city's beauty and hindering cultural and religious activities. Time and again, conflict of poorly managed landfill sites have arisen which led to halt of solid waste collection in Kathmandu v… Show more
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