SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT TEKU
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| Trucks collecting Solid waste From Municipality |
Before thinking about solid waste
management I think it will be appreciable if we thought one minute about the
waste whatever it e produced by we ourselves. In everyday life we consume lots
of things to eat, to wear and many thing else. I don’t think there is anything
rapped form outside and what I don’t think too is nature was itself given cover
to every fruits. We don’t have consumed anything that is covering till the day.
Have we?
Once we everyone should think where does
it go after we used? Where did we throw it? Are we managing it properly? Why
are we polluting the environment? Is it good?
After all these questions we should
have spirit to answer to this question
Should we start ourselves to
manage it and make the world more beautiful?
Kathmandu is the capital city of Nepal.
Everyone of this country wants to migrate into this valley. This is so
beautiful and center of attraction to tourist. Here are lots of temples. Every
year millions of tourists visit this valley. The inhabitant of this place is
1744240 according to census 2011. But the population density is 4400 per sq.
km. which is too high. It is total area is 395 sq. km
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| Collected waste from Society |
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| Heap of Collected waste |
Every day loads of solid waste is produced by these many people. I think there is lack of knowledge among people and reluctance of Nepal government to manage the waste produced. People here are too busy that they use most of the time ready-made food items. The rappers produced from it are thrown haphazardly. Metropolitan city has taken the responsibility of managing it but still it is not sufficient that only metropolitan city can manage. people themselves should be aware of it and should try to help.
Here in Kathmandu metropolitan
city is collecting every day and depositing it at Teku near balkhu.
DAILY ROUTINE
Every day
from 5:00 am in the morning to 2:00 pm on day 60-70 truck start
collecting the waste deposited by the local people at their houses. These
trucks were somehow helped by government of china. They have also managed the
rolling dust bin at different places to collect the rubbish waste on the way of
people.
For the waste management there are around
300 workers, working daily. They collect all the waste as much as possibly from
35 wards. In average they collect 150 ton/day of waste. We were seeing one
great hill like heap of waste. That was of about 2-3 months waste. In the
session of 3-4 rounds they use the chemical like phenol to decrease the bad
smell. It is so effective to decrease the bad smell and less toxic. It is under
the control of Ministry of local development and coordination by Kathmandu
metropolitan city.
As in abroad here is not the facility of
separation the waste into various categories. Not even it is reutilized in any
way. Here the area of it is so small that if can`t accommodate any more waste
then how they can separate. It was actually active into this metropolitan city
after 2048 BS. It is collected here at teku and sends to Sisdol of Wokharpuwa
at Nuwakot for landfill. There was some hour labors and contractor who separate
the waste accordingly into reusable and non-reusable and sent to India by brokers.
The labors are given money for it. They are paid 250 to 300 Nrs per pack, said
Naresh Raj Kunwar, an employer at teku per day one truck can do only 1 to 2
trip to sisdol. It is 35 km away from teku. There are local people too they are
somehow objecting for landfill. It is polluting the environment around there.
Government is trying to manage it somehow.
At the time of our visit at Teku, people
at Sisdol (landfill site) were striking due to which the waste of Kathmandu was
not collected due to which City was smelling too bad and too much polluted. They
were placing some requirement to metropolitan city i.e. need of ambulance e and
clear road. Because the land filling activity was disturbing their road and
making them difficulty.
CAN WE REUSE IT?
Now recently 9 month back in 2073 BS.
Nepal government has thought about reusing policy. The organic wastes that can
be composted and reused are being used at Teku. With the help of European Union
(EU) and others they are separating decomposable organic things and producing
electricity. The amount of electricity is 14 KW. They are consuming 1-2 ton of
waste per day.
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| Waste reusing Machine at Teku |
HOW DOES IT WORK?
There are certain Parts:
1. Chopper
2. Mixer
3. Collector
4. Balloon
5. Filter
6. Electric Chamber
There are certain steps:
1. Separation
2. Collection and Chopping
3. Mixing
4. Pumping
5. Collecting Gas
6. Filtering Gas
7. Electricity production.
The Organic usable waste is separated and collected on the table at chopper. It is chopped into small pieces. The equal amount of chopped waste and water is mixed into mixer. It is rotated and pumped to the collector. There are two great chambers for collecting. Here gas is produced. During first time of its establishment and gas production 8000 kg of cow/buffalo Dung was used. There was yellow pipe to collect to collect the gas produced. It is then sent to the balloon for its collection. There was separate house inside which there was a large balloon was held inside. The total gas produced can’t be used so It is to be filtered and finally only Methane is to be extracted. Because only methane is used up by machine to produce electricity.
In this way we can reuse the reusable
waste. If it is done in large scale then it will be beneficial to we everyone
.we can preserve beauty of our society.
HOW CAN WE SUPPORT FROM OUR SIDE?
There are certain categories of
waste i.e. Decomposable , non-decomposable, Toxic , Nontoxic etc.
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We can separately collect the waste according to
categories.
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Only throw the waste into dustbin. (make the
habit)
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Educate the people if they are unknown.
“Give Your Best and Don’t worry About the
Rest”-Bhart rawot
If we will do
this then certainly this incredibly beautiful world will be beautiful once
again and there will be no Fear to be scared of Disease and death due to
pollution. We can freely enjoy this world once again.
“YES, It is
possible we can enjoy this beautiful world once again”- YATUKU
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| Yes, We together Can do It |