Recycling activities are not developed in the field of waste management areas. Very few municipalities have reported recycling their wastes generated in the respective areas. It is noted that the cost of sorting recyclable items from wastes may generally not be favourable to the respective industries in the country. So, the recycled proportion of wastes is very low. However, scavenging activities seems to be increasing m urban areas.
Scavengers collect metal, plastics, beer bottles, etc.
Some newly declared municipalities have reported that they have yet to maintain proper records concerning solid wastes management. Most of these municipalities do not have any official sanitary dumping sites. In the case of Kathmandu valley, there are dumping sites. The Kathmandu Metropolitan Municipality and Lalitpur Sub-metropolitan Municipality use the dumping site of Gokarna sanitary landfill. This is located east of Kathmandu and it is 15 km away from the city.