Studies suggest that an average person in Thimphu generates half a kilogram of garbage everyday which amounts to 50 MT (metric tones) in a single day. It also suggests that this amount was four times less some fifteen odd years back. The rise in population is mainly attributed as the cause. Now Thimphu is expected to have a burgeoning population of more than 200,000 citizens by the next decade, more than double the present count. Let me focus on the... (more...)
