The Kathmandu Metropolitan City has been collecting the garbage that had accumulated by the roadsides for nearly three weeks. Although KMC has put effort into clearing the wastes, it is grappling with waste management. 

KMC’s Department of Environment Chief Hari Kumar Shrestha told NepalNews that the Waste Management Division has already started collecting and carrying away the waste to the landfill sites. He said that the KMC has been facing problems in managing waste as the Sisdol landfill site which is in use for the past 13 years is now almost fully occupied to its capacity. Apart from that, the vehicles carrying the wastes to the landfill site has to ply the 200-metre road built over the waste that has turned into a quagmire due to torrential rain, he said and added that vehicles struggle to reach the spot for dumping the waste is at the height of 80 metres. In many cases the vehicles get stranded on the way, he explained and said out of 150 vehicles, only 50 vehicles have been engaged in carrying the waste to the Sisdol landfill site.