Aluminium ladders and cans collected from Mount Everest may find a second life as pots and pans, Nepali officials said Wednesday, as some ten ...
KATHMANDU: Aluminium ladders and cans collected from Mount Everest may find a second life as pots and pans, Nepali officials said Wednesday , as some ten tonnes of garbage collected from the world's highest mountain was handed over for recycling.
The bags of trash were flown by army helicopter to Kathmandu, or trucked down along winding mountain roads before being handed over to a local recycling company in a ceremony to mark World Environment Day. Fluorescent tents, discarded climbing equipment, empty gas canisters and even human excrement litter the well-trodden route to the summit of the 8,848-metre peak AFP/PRAKASH MATHEMA
Six years ago, Nepal implemented a US$4,000 rubbish deposit per team that would be refunded if each climber brought down at least eight kilos of waste, but only half of the climbers return with their trash.
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