“…64.24 percent of the domestic waste in Kathmandu is made up of plastics (15.96%), paper and paper products (8.66%), glass (3.75%), metals (1.72%), textiles (3.4%), rubber and leather (1.12%), and others (1.15%) [6]. (Asian Development Bank, 2013) The results exceed those of their South Asian counterparts [6] and those suggested for low-and middle-income cities (i.e., spending no more than 0.5 percent of GNP on SWM) [7].…”