Nepsemyak

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Methodology

• Waste is collected directly from registered houses only.
• According to the given schedule, the collection work starts from 5:00 AM or 6:00 AM in the morning. It is estimated to be completed by 7:00 AM on the main road and by 2:00 PM in other locations.
• Cleaning of main roads daily and collection of waste along with dust once a week by 7:00 am in other roads.
• The collected waste is taken to the collection center or Transfer Station and reusable items are sorted out as much as possible.
• Priority is given to separate waste by nature at the source (customer's house) itself.
• Decomposable waste is collected from the subscribers twice a week and non Decomposable once a week.
• Awareness programs are conducted once a month in different neighborhoods.
• Reusable wastes are sold and distributeed and only the non reusable waste are taken to the landfill sites.
• The organic waste are converted into compost either in the existing compost pits (plants) or by constructing new compost pits. Waste reduction is highly priortized.
• Compost is provided to farmers at an affordable rate and it is also used for plants along the roads.
• Seedlings are made available for the implementation of the concept of one house two trees. Residents are even helped to develop gardens on vacant land themselves.
• Providing momentum to planting and pruning trees along roads with the cooperation of local residents.
• Arrangement of dustbins along roads for disposing small amounts of waste which is collected and take them away after getting full by our collectors.

Workforce

Assets

Fee collection paradigm

Challenges

• The environment for working with long term planning is lacking.
• There is no land available even on rent for establishing transfer stations (processing centers).
• There is a huge demand for workers in waste management.
• Management and infrastructure development of landfill sites is not effective.
• All houses have not yet been included as customers.
• It takes a lot of time and money to enforce laws and regulations.
• Work habits and fee fixation methods are not uniform and scientific.
• Due to weaknesses in technology, there is little chance of optimally utilizing waste even if wanted.
• The idea "services of municipality and Nepsemyak complement each other" has not been established to people.
• There are no alternative landfill sites.

Long Term Tasks

• Do research works in waste management
• Make compost at household and community level itself
• Promote recycled use
• Increase use of machinery power
• Adopt modern techniques for urban environment and ecosystem protection
• Use waste as raw material for waste based industries
• Run and promote activities like afforestation, organic farming, beekeeping and greenery development
• Create employment opportunities in the field of waste management
• Promote through books, educational and informative materials and media
• Use land within the municipality area and cooperate with other areas only if not possible within municipality
• Make waste management service compulsory and create a binding condition for citizens to become waste management service users linked with other municipality services.
• Determine fees in a scientific manner
• Conditionally hand over waste management work for a long term through a legal process to the private sector currently working based on performance under public private partnership concept.
• Analyze the financial situation of areas with private sector involvement and provide a certain amount to the private sector from the municipality in areas with less income sources. And the private sector will deposit a certain percentage of the amount collected from service users as a cleaning fee in the municipality's account as waste collection service fee.
• Make arrangements for the municipality to monitor, evaluate and regulate the work done by the private sector.

Achievements

• People take out their garbage only after the vehicle comes and honks.
• Wastes are not spilled on the road.
• coordination from the government and non government organizations are being carried on.
• The respect for people and professions related to waste management is increasing.
• People contact themselves to become service users.
• The sample work of waste sorting and composting is going on.
• The habit of paying waste fees has set in.
• People participate in public programs.
• The work of cleaning public places like riverbanks, roadsides is going on.