Garbage life: protests against the mountains of rubbish on the streets of Kathmandu
Garbage removal has become an ongoing problem in a city surrounded by hills and adorned with temples, after an attempt to dispose of garbage in a landfill in a village outside the capital of Nepal encountered fierce opposition from its residents
Reuters
09/06/2022
Thursday, 09 June 2022, 13:56 Updated: 14:03
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In video: Endless piles of garbage in Kathmandu bring disease to residents of Nepal's capital (Photo: Reuters)
Richard Maxorelli, a British tourist in Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal, passed by a mountain of rubbish and recalled a time when the city adorned with temples was clean when he first visited it decades ago.
"If I were a new tourist, I would be disgusted," the 48-year-old told Reuters, pointing to a pile of rubbish on the side of the street in a city that had suffered a tourist collapse when the corona plague broke out.
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Protest against dumping waste from Kathmandu in an out-of-town village (Photo: Reuters)
Garbage removal has become an ongoing problem in a hilly city after an attempt to dispose of garbage in a landfill in a village outside the capital met with fierce opposition from its residents.
According to Biswas Dongana, a protester for the waste site, he said the villagers were unwilling to allow garbage-laden trucks to enter on the grounds that authorities were not providing adequate infrastructure for waste management.
Waste on the streets of Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal (Photo: Reuters)
Yesterday (Wednesday) hundreds of villagers lined up with stone barricades on the road to block the 200 trucks full of rubbish from Kathmandu that came to dump their rubbish in the village.
The demonstrators threw stones and wounded three policemen who fired tear gas at them.
"I'm tired of the authorities failing to even keep the city clean," a Kathmandu resident told Ella Magar.
"It's a shame and a disgrace."
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