Nepal to turn EVEREST TRASH into art for gallery to highlight mountain’s garbage blight

 


In a bid to highlight the need to save the world's tallest mountain from turning into a dumping site,the trash collected from Mount Everest is all set to be transformed into art, and will be displayed in a nearby gallery. Tommy Gustafsson, the project director and co-founder of the Sagarmatha Next Centre, a visitors’ information centre and a waste up-cycling facility,said,foreign and local artists will not only be engaged in creating artwork from the waste materials, locals will also be trained to turn the trash into treasures. “We want to showcase how you can transform solid waste to precious pieces of art … and generate employment and income as well,” Gustafsson said.

Used oxygen bottles, torn tents, ropes, broken ladders, cans, and plastic wrappers discarded by the climbers and the trekkers, litter the 8,848.86 metre-tall peak and the surrounding areas

  • The Sagarmatha Next Centre, which has taken up the initiative, is located at an altitude of 3,780 metres at Syangboche, on the main trail to the Everest base camp, a two days' walk from Lukla, the gateway to the mountain.
  • The products and artwork will be displayed to raise environmental awareness, or sold as souvenirs, with the proceeds going to the conservation of the region.
  • The trash brought down from the mountain or collected from the households and tea houses along the trail is usually handled and segregated by a local environmental group, the Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee.

Did You Know

Nearly 4,000 people have made 6,553 ascents from the Nepali side of the mountain, since Edmond Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing climbed in 1953. It can also be climbed from the Tibetan side in China, according to the Himalayan Data base.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Educate Girls To Fight Climate Change: Malala

Image
  Keeping girls in school and taking young climate leaders seriously are keys to tackling climate change, Nobel Peace Prize winner  Malala  Yousafzai said on Friday. Speaking to a virtual panel,  Malala , 23, said educating girls and young women, particularly in developing countries, would give them a chance to pursue green jobs and be part of solving the climate crisis in their communities. "Girls' education, gender equality and climate change are not separate issues. Girl's education and gender equality can be used as solutions against climate change,"  Malala  told an online event by British think-tank Chatham House. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, some 130 million girls worldwide were already out of school, according to the United Nations cultural agency UNESCO, which said more than 11 million may not return to classes after the pandemic. "When we educate girls ... they can become farmers, conservationists, solar technicians, they can fill other green job...
Read more

Post 7% Cut In Emissions,Experts Warn Of Rebound

Image
  Coronavirus restrictions led to a record 7% fall in global carbon emissions last year, but the drop will be short-lived unless efforts to phase out fossil fuel are intensified, a study by scientists in the journal Nature Climate Change said. The study by scientists from institutions in Australia, Britain, France, Norway and the United States, confirmed preliminary estimates from May last year that global CO2 emissions from fossil fuels fell by 7%, or 2.6 billion tonnes, to 34 billion tonnes. On Tuesday, the International Energy Agency said global CO2 emissions dropped by 5.8% in 2020. The study in Nature Climate Change analysed daily CO2 emissions across 71 countries and six economic sectors, using data from daily electricity use and mobility tracking services. To keep the global temperature rise to 1.5-2 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) this century, emissions must decrease by 1-2 billion tonnes a year, the United Nations says. "When fossil fuel infrastructure is put in...
Read more

Now, a low-cost portable machine to grab plastic bags

A team of students has developed an innovative portable and lowcost machine, which efficiently collects discarded plastic bags. The machine, created by six final year engineering students from the Sona College of Technology in Salem, Tamil Nadu, is currently undergoing rigorous trials on the streets, within the municipal limits of the steel and textiles town. "The plastic waste collecting device is mounted on a sturdy frame with an infra-red sensor attached to a mobile vacuum chamber. It is capable of sensing plastic on the roads and attract it," project leader TV Kishore Kumar said.The idea and the execution. The Idea and execution Kumar, along with classmates N Javeeth Khan, R Akash, S Lokeshwar, R Dinesh Babu and R Ilavarasan, were inspired to create this device, after a call by the PM to make India plastic-free. The team integrated a shredder as an add-on accessory, which shreds the collected plastic bags. This shredded material was then mixed to concrete as a replacement...
Read more