Over 400 people trained on green job in Pokhara

Kaski, March 2: More than 400 people have been provided with training on green jobs in Pokhara so that they can recycle and upcycle waste to generate money.

The beneficiaries are from all 33 wards of Pokhara metropolitan city. A project relating to green jobs through recycling and upcycling provided skill-based training for a week, according to Anil Lamichhane, secretary of the organizing institution.

In the training, the participants were instructed on how they could adopt sustainable waste management, create green employment and generate money. Types of waste, segregation of waste, community’s role, waste management, responsible use, 3R principle (reuse, rescue and recycle), and commercial plan were the major highlights of the training.

The project aims to create more than 600 green jobs through sustainable waste management in Pokhara by 2029. Similarly, it has provided public awareness on waste management. The creation of 30 enterprises on recycling and upcycling has been planned during the project. —RSS