Trash to treasure: Mt Everest garbage given new lease of lifeMount Everest has been dubbed world's highest rubbish dump. "Waste doesn't need to be wasted," Nabin Bikash Maharjan of local recycling organisation Blue Waste to Value (BW2V) told AFP. In August, the Everest region municipality announced it would ban some single-use plastics and drinks in plastic bottles from the area from early 2020. They are each asked to carry a one kilogram (2.2 pounds) pouch of processed trash to Lukla, the gateway to the Everest region, or Kathmandu for recycling. "In the long-term we need is to minimise the trash at the source, and make the polluters responsible for the cleaning."

Source: Standard Digital October 22, 2019 06:44 UTC