Open burning of waste is doing big harm to the environment, but Nepal is little aware

Sudha Humagain used to work for a renewable energy engineering consulting company while pursuing her bachelor’s degree in environmental sciences. In 2018, she had to visit some places in the Kathmandu and Kavrepalanchok districts to observe the situation of solid waste management there.

“The experience was shocking for me,” the emerging environmental scientist says, “Most of the people in these places were burning the waste.” More shocking was that people thought it was one of the best ways of managing waste.