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Inauguration of "Everest Cleanup Campaign 2018"
17 Mar 2018 , Posted by UNDP Nepal
Yeti Airlines in partnership with Khumbu Pasang Lhamu Rural Municipality, Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee (SPCC), Himalaya Club and UNDP Nepalhas formally initiated the process to airlift 100 t...
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Khumbu Icefall Route construction (Spring 2018) Update
16 Mar 2018 , Everest Base Camp
As the spring climbing season is approaching our icefall doctors’ team have reached Everest Base Camp today where they will spend another three months to fix and maintain the Khumbu icefall rout...
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Everest Garbage CARAVAN
10 Mar 2018 , Published in The Nepali Times
Since 2016, SPCC is transporting wastes of recyclable values from the Everest Region to Kathmandu for proper treatment at recycling centers in partnership with Tara Air. In this story and video, Nepal...
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Bags made from reusing tents destroyed by avalanche at EBC
25 Apr 2017 , Namche Bazaar
“WASTE IS NOT WASTE UNTIL IT IS WASTED” – we have created beautiful bags reusing tents crushed by earthquake-triggered avalanche at Everest Base Camp two years ago on 25th April 2015...
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Khumbu Icefall Route Construction Spring (2017) Update
05 Apr 2017 , Everest Base Camp
Our team of eight icefall doctors completed the setting of Khumbu icefall route – the route between base camp and camp II - for this Spring Climbing season on 4th April 2017. Our icefall doctors...
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Transportation of non-burnable garbage from Lukla to Kathmandu for recycling
04 Oct 2016 , Lukla
A total of 4,229 kgs of non-burnable garbage has been successfully transported from Lukla to Kathmandu by Tara Air on 3rd and 4th October 2016 for further treatment at recycling centers in Kathmandu....
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Khumbu Public Awareness-Raising Cleanup Campaign 2016
21 Jun 2016 , Everest Valley and Imja Valley
A total of 115 representatives from various organizations took part in our annual “Khumbu Public Awareness Raising Cleanup Campaign 2016”held from 13-20 June 2016 in the route of Namche Ba...
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Khumbu Icefall Route construction (Spring 2016) Update
02 Mar 2016 , Khumbu Icefall, Mt. Everest
As the spring climbing season is approaching our icefall doctors have reached Everest Base Camp today where they will spend another three months to fix and maintain the Khumbu icefall route for climbe...
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Workshop conducted on "“Issues and Challenges of Managing Waste in Khumbu"
02 Feb 2016 , Malla Hotel, Kathmandu
The Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee (SPCC) conducted a half-day interactive workshop on “Issues and Challenges of Managing Waste/Garbage in Khumbu Region (Role of different stakeholders)&...
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EARTHQUAKE RELIEF ANNOUNCEMENTS
28 May 2015 , Khumbu Region
The massive earthquake of 7.8 magnitude struck in Nepal on 25 April 2015, followed by a series of aftershocks hugely affected the communities within our working areas, the three VDCs (Chaurikharka, Na...