On the Occassion of World Environment Day. GUTHI in collaboration with CEPHED and Khwopa College is organizing interaction program on " Chemical Safety, Environment and Ecosystem Restoration"
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A proposed landfill project has failed to take off due to protests from some town residents who do not want a waste management facility near their homes.
Bhimdatta Municipality in Kanchanpur has been grappling with waste management problems for the last two decades. Around 11 to 14 tonnes of garbage is generated within the municipality on a daily basis, according to officials at the local unit. The municipality had issued several public notices in the past searching for five bighas of land to construct a dumping site. But none of the landowners in the municipality is willing to provide land plots for that purpose.For a lack of a dumping site, the collected garbage is buried in large pits in the bazaar area.
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