KATHMANDU, JANUARY 3

The Embassy of Israel today initiated an Environment Conservation Activity under the slogan, "Stop Pollution: Used Batteries Collection" in cooperation with the schools of Kathmandu.

The project aims to contribute to the mitigation of environmental pollution.

As batteries contain a number of heavy metals and toxic chemicals, disposing them in the same way as we dispose regular household waste creates serious impacts of soil contamination, water pollution, air pollution, thereby affecting the human lives and our planet.

The Embassy of Israel has collaborated with schools of the valley, including Kathmandu Pragya Kunja School, Shanti Sikshya School, KMC School, Kavya School, among others, in a bid to reduce pollution with the individual steps of the students. The students collected used batteries (alkaline batteries, coin cell batteries and other nonrechargeable batteries) and brought them to the school, which were later taken to DOKO Recyclers for recycling.

Today, an event was held at Kathmandu Pragya Kunja School to hand over the collected used batteries to deliver the important message of responsibility of an individual towards cleaner environment.

The jars of batteries were collected and handed over to DOKO Recyclers.

Minister of Forests and Environment Ramsahay Prasad Yadav was present during the ceremony. Appreciating the initiative of collecting old batteries and sending them for recycling, Minister Yadav said, "This activity is very important at present. Human activities are hampering themselves, flora, fauna and nature as a whole.

A version of this article appears in the print on January 4, 2022, of The Himalayan Times.