Mt. Everest Base Camp has become clean lately although until recently it was highly polluted with randomly thrown empty oxygen cylinders, bottles and human excreta, state-owned news agency RSS reports.
The camp has changed its face after the Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee (SPCC) took initiation to clean the base camp area.
More than 4,000 people travel to the base camp daily. So, the open defecation by mountaineers, tourists, and tourist guides and the trash thrown away by them is difficult to manage. But, the SPCC has successfully managed to clean the area and have kept the base camp clean, Chhiring Tenjing Sherpa, manger at SPSS told RSS.
Not only the trash but also human excreta collected from and brought from the Base Camp are disposed off at Namche bazaar, he added.
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