Cars speeding along a smooth, black-coloured street in Nepal's Pokhara are also driving over heaps of discarded plastic, transformed into an ingredient in road construction. Nepal's urban areas ...

so they thought. As the roads snaked north into the mountains, Nepalis moved south to the plains along them. Nepal's new roads have become conduits for better opportunities in the cities, the Tarai ...

black-coloured street in Nepal’s Pokhara are also driving over heaps of discarded plastic, transformed into an ingredient in road construction. Nepal’s urban areas generate about 5,000 tonnes ...

founder of Green Road Waste Management, the organisation leading the initiative in Nepal. "We saw scope for such plastics to be utilised as a raw material, partially substituting bitumen in road ...