NEED OF COMMUNITY BASED SUSTAINABLE APPROACH FOR SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT IN KATHMANDU

Abstract

This paper presents the case study on one of the major infrastructure component of urban areas: the solid waste management of Kathmandu valley, Nepal. The community survey conducted in Kathmandu revealed that the traditional solid waste management system lacks a complete awareness and involvement of the community from the planning stage. Planning and developing solid waste management system to date, as a purely technical perspective, has led to the failure of these ‘systems’ with catastrophic impacts. Hence, there is a need for a major shift in approach ‘the community-based’ instead of centrally managed to make the service more efficient pertinent to the local needs and conditions.