In urban areas, waste management is becoming a every day problem, creating negative impact on environment. To minimise the negative impact of environment in urban areas, an effective solid waste management is a must. One of the new concept for solid waste management is Waste ?to ? Energy. This can be done by producing biogas from vegetable/fruit wastes. Biogas as a cooking fuel has potential to supplement the LPG fuel which will result the reduced LPG consumption in urban area. The burning of biogas from vegetable waste reduces the atmospherical methane generation (if these vegetable waste are decomposed in atmoshpere e.g. in landfill sites) which reduces the global warming potential by 21 times. Thus, on the one hand it will solve the waste management problem and on the other hand it provides clean energy, which helps in mitigating adverse impact on climate change.

This project envisages a wider training on operation of Institutional Multipurpose Biogas Plants (IMBP) based on vegetable/fruit waste from Vegetable and Fruit Markets in various municipalities of the country. Government of Nepal has developed a number of vegetable and fruit markets in urban areas. There are 58 municipalities out of which one is a Metropolitan City and 4 are Sub-Metropolitan cities. There are several vegetable and fruit markets in these municipalties where about NRs. 1,300/ton per day is spent for collecting and dumping these waste. This project envisages dissemination of information and technology on how to utilize these waste for energy generation purpose. For this, in this project, established IMBP in Kathmandu metropolitan city, Lalitpur Sub-Metropolitan City and Dhulikhel will be demonstrated and technology will also be transferred for replication in other municipalities of the country. Everyday, all sorts of vegetables, fruits and other bio degradable wastes are being generated in these places,which are either dumped or disposed openly. An average of 900 tons of biodegradable wastes are generated in 10 municipalities. Establishment of IMBPs in these areas will solve the dumping and solid wastes management to some extent.

The proposed project is mainly focussed on the dissemination, demonstration and capacity building on operation of IMBPs for three different categories of the users/ facilititators and decision makers/implimentors of 12 municipalities of the country.