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The government aims to make the island a regional hub for resource efficiency, in line with a 2050 roadmap for industrial transition as the sector grows faster than European peers.
The Sirsiya River, once central to daily life, agriculture, and religious rituals in southern Nepal, is now heavily polluted with industrial waste and sewage, rendering it a public health hazard.
The position had been vacant for four months amid a deadlock in negotiations for the treaty to curb global plastic pollution.
The move reclassifies electronic waste under absolute prohibition to tighten border controls and curb environmental risks in the country amid recent corruption probes.
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