By Daniel Burgi | HimalayanLife CEO
During a clean up campaign in collaboration witrh the Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee in the Everest region in March, some 8,000 discarded PET bottles were recovered. The bottles were carried on mules to Namche Bazar, were they were compacted, and then again transported by mule to the roadhead further down in the valley. From there, the bottles were trucked to the recycling facility in Pokhara.
Preparations for the next clean up campaign are under way. This campaign will focus on the Annapurna Trecking region and we are seeking to collaborate with the Conservation Area Project (ACAP). Recovering discarded plastic in the Annapurna region is much "easier" than doing the same in the Everest region, simply because there are Jeep roads to most places which makes transportation easier.
Financial viability for these clean upo campaigns remains a major concern. Purely economically speaking, just recovering the discarded plastic, and particularly transportation therof to the recycling plant, exceed the value of the resulting rPET material by far. The project thus dependsandrelies on funding.
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