{"id":46404,"date":"2026-04-23T13:33:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T07:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=46404"},"modified":"2026-04-23T13:33:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T07:48:38","slug":"good-practice-in-waste-management-in-tamghas-waste-sold-to-waste-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/good-practice-in-waste-management-in-tamghas-waste-sold-to-waste-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"Good practice in waste management in Tamghas: Waste sold to &#8216;waste bank&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Tamghas (Gulmi), April 23: Waste has started being sold at Tamghas, the district headquarters of Gulmi, as a way of waste management.<\/p>\n<p>The Municipal Development and Clean Environment Committee has started selling the non-biodegradable waste from the waste collected in Tamghas, to Palpa Nepalese Waste Bank.<\/p>\n<p>As per the agreement, plastic bottles are sold at Rs 10 per kg, Red Bull cans at Rs 80 per kg, HDP plastic at Rs 8 per kg, mineral water bottles at Rs 10 per kg, iron at Rs 15 per kg, glass at Rs 1 per kg.<\/p>\n<p>Municipal Development and Environment Conservation Organisation collects waste from 1,765 houses of Resunga municipality-1, 2, 7, 8, 9 and some parts of wards no 4.<br \/>\nThe Committee collects waste from these places except Saturday and takes to landfill site, Okhreni. Around two tonnes of waste\u2014biodegradable and non-biodegradable are collected daily, added the Committee.<\/p>\n<p>The Bank has recruited three human resources to separate biodegradable and non-biodegradable waste and it pays them as per the quantity of waste.<\/p>\n<p>Committee Chairperson Ram Prasad Panthi shared that the Committee made Rs 20,000 income after selling four truck load of waste from Gulmi in a month.<\/p>\n<p>It is stated that water sources are going to be clean with the start of sale of waste. Earlier, the waste collected there was burnt in Okhreni.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tamghas (Gulmi), April 23: Waste has started being sold at Tamghas, the district headquarters of Gulmi, as a way of waste management. The Municipal Development and Clean Environment Committee has started selling the non-biodegradable waste from the waste collected in Tamghas, to Palpa Nepalese Waste Bank. As per the agreement, plastic bottles are sold at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46404"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46406,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46404\/revisions\/46406"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}