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The ‘WASTEWISE’ is a website aimed to provide a digital way of complaining the concerns of general citizens to their relative municipalities.

  • Complaining about waste or garbage problems near their locality.
  • See their complain Report and check if the work is done! or not.
  • people can take different ideas regarding recycling of waste through this website.

Complaining about the waste problem encountered everyday to municipality is hefty process and waste management aims to make this process easier. With a simple handheld device with access to internet, user can use this platform complain their concerns to municipality . The automated system will redirect the complains .The municipality admins at the receiving side can acknowledge the reports which lets the users whether their complain is addressed or not.

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Guidelines implementation must for proper management of medical waste

As of the fiscal year 2022/23, Nepal's healthcare infrastructure has expanded significantly since the 2000/2001 report. According to the Nepal Health Fact Sheets 2023, the current distribution of government-run health facilities is as follows:
- Public Hospitals: 215
- Primary Health Care Centers (PHCCs): 187
- Health Posts: 3,778
The previous categories of Sub-health Posts have been upgraded to Health Posts, eliminating the former designation. Regarding healthcare waste management, all healthcare facilities are mandated to adhere to the 'National Health Care Waste Management Guidelines' prepared by the National Health Research Council (NHRC). These guidelines aim to ensure safe and effective management of healthcare waste across the country. Efforts are ongoing to address these issues and improve the quality and accessibility of healthcare services throughout Nepal.

  • 01 “Wastes from health care institutions can be categorized as infectious or noninfectious."

    Infectious wastes include human, animal, or biological wastes and any items that may be contaminated with pathogens. Non-infectious wastes include toxic chemicals, cytotoxic drugs, and radioactive, flammable, and explosive wastes, reads the guideline.

  • However, not all hospitals are following the guidelines mainly because of the lack of budget, lack of orientation regarding medical waste management to waste handlers, and flimsy monitoring from the government. Segregation of medical waste is a vital part of hospital waste management. Poor management of hospital waste poses risk not only to its handlers during its treatment and disposal but also to the environment if not disposed in a proper manner. Haphazard management of hospital waste also gives black marketers an opportunity to collect the disposed medical equipment and resell them.

  • “We used to have an ideal waste management system to sterilize and dispose hospital waste before the 2015 earthquake. But the earthquake damaged the building where we had installed the autoclave device and now we don’t have any space. The new building is currently being used to accommodate admitted patients.” Dr Century added that lack of space has barred the hospital from following NHRC’s National Health Care Waste Management Guidelines and they are relying on traditional means of sterilization for the time being. Management of medical waste at private hospitals is poorer as compared to government run hospitals for want of regular monitoring from authorities concerned. A report published by the Ministry of Health and Population shows that private hospitals continue to burn, bury and dispose hazardous immunization waste mixing it up with the municipal waste.

 

Composition and Percentage of Waste Generation

Management of Municipal Solid Wastes: A Case Study in Limpopo Province, South Africa

Plastics 35%
Paper and Glass 25%
Food Waste 25%
Garden Waste15%

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Frequently Asked Questions

Waste management regulations and disposal methods.

  • What is waste management?

    Waste management is the collection, transportation and disposal of waste materials.

  • Keep separate containers for dry and wet waste in the kitchen. Keep two bags for dry waste collection- paper and plastic, for the rest of the household waste. Keep plastic from the kitchen clean and dry and drop into the dry waste bin. Keep glass /plastic containers rinsed of food matter. Keep a paper bag for throwing sanitary waste.

  • Form a group with like-minded people. Explain waste segregation to your family / neighbours in your apartment building. Get the staff in the apartment building to also understand its importance. Get separate storage drums for storing dry and wet waste. Have the dry waste picked up by the dry waste collection centre or your local scrap dealer.

  • 1. Wet waste- Wet waste consists of kitchen waste - including vegetable and fruit peels and pieces, tea leaves, coffee grounds, eggshells, bones and entrails, fish scales, as well as cooked food (both veg and non-veg).

    2. Dry Waste- Paper, plastics, metal, glass, rubber, thermocol, styrofoam, fabric, leather, rexine, wood – anything that can be kept for an extended period without decomposing is classified as dry waste.

    3 .Hazardous waste- Household hazardous waste or HHW include three sub-categories – E-waste; toxic substances such as paints, cleaning agents, solvents, insecticides and their containers, other chemicals; and biomedical waste.

    4. E-waste- E-waste or electronic waste consists of batteries, computer parts, wires, electrical equipment of any kind, electrical and electronic toys, remotes, watches, cell phones, bulbs, tube lights and CFLs.

    5. Biomedical waste- This includes used menstrual cloth, sanitary napkins, disposable diapers, bandages and any material that is contaminated with blood or other body fluids.

  • 1. Dry waste- Store it in a bag in the utility area after cleaning and drying till it is picked up. No food residue must be left in the bottles and packets. Clean them as you would to reuse them. If clothes are totally unusable, or very damaged, they are categorized as dry waste. If clothes are soiled with body fluids, they become sanitary waste. If they are soiled with paint, or any chemicals, they are HHW (household hazardous waste).

    2. E-waste- Store them in separate container which is kept closed, away from moisture and in which nothing else is put.

  • 1. Compost your wet waste at home- Home composting can easily be done in any aerated container. Get more details on composting and begin composting today!

    2 Compost your wet waste at the community level- If you live in a large apartment building, a community composting system like tank composting could be set up for all the wet waste from the residents. If not, the wet waste can be given out every day to your Municipality collection system.

    3 Biomedical waste has to be wrapped separately in a newspaper and handed over to the municipality waste collection system. Expired medicines and injections, used syringes also have to be disposed in the same manner. Paint and other hazardous waste like cosmetics, mosquito repellents, tube lights etc have to be stored separately and handed over to the Municipal collection system.