The existing waste management services are inadequate, inefficient and expensively operated in urban centres/Municipalities. The Municipal authority is collecting a very small portion of the total municipal waste. However, some NGOs and privately owned organization are also involved in the activities, but they still requires a prominent mechanism of waste management as they are just cleaning a place to make other place messy. The major portion of the waste is being either disposed in the open land, drain, river, and public space, street other places or sent to the private waste collector as their convenience.

Burning Waste

Even the collected waste by the various involved organizations is disposed at dumping site in an environmentally unsound ways. The serious impacts of inadequate waste management relate to the blocking of drains, caused particularly by vegetable plants and leaves, papers, plastics and other non-biodegradable wastes, and the dumping and scatter of wastes in the street and along riverbanks, causing aesthetic, health and environmental damage.

The behaviour of waste burning is not environment-friendly. But it is being the daily routine of the most people in Nepal since absence of efficient waste collection system. The plastic, rubber/ tyres , paper with containing chlorine is required to be discouraged as this has toxic effect on the human health and environment.

The infectious waste generated by hospital/clinic is being burned in open air or incinerated in incinerator or mixed with municipal waste, however, the drawback includes the gas emission and ash from the incineration being openly disposed in its premises.