A Social Enterprise in Waste Management

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Why Consult With Doko Recyclers?
Nepal needs effective long term and efficient waste management systems at both the municipal and
community levels. Doko Recyclers provides large-scale waste management services in both urban and rural
areas. We work with stakeholders including private, public and development sector organizations to create
waste management systems that are specific to our clients’ unique needs. As Nepal’s first waste management
enterprise, we aim to increase awareness of the importance of proper waste management while creating waste
management models that preserve and elevate culture and environment.

We also support companies that want to become sustainable by aiding in Corporate Social Responsibility
(CSR) opportunities, Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) schemes and recycling end-of-life
recyclable products. It is high time we do what we can to manage waste in Nepal, especially with
increasing consumption of goods and lack of proper waste management.

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Rural and Mountain Waste Management Consultancy
We work with a variety of groups ranging from
international organizations and corporations to rural
municipalities and non-governmental organizations
(NGOs). We partner with funding agencies and I/NGOs
to help local communities establish proper waste
management systems or establish how their partner
organizations can adopt sustainable practices which
can influence communities they work with. As per our
partners’ needs, we also recommend necessary
infrastructure, set up waste management committees,
and provide capacity building training and knowledge
transfer activities.
Rural and peri-urban areas transitioning into larger
towns are particularly at higher risk to succumb to the
pitfalls of uncontrolled and unplanned waste
management such as increased risks for illnesses
through contaminated air and water. If we take this
opportunity to introduce a waste management system
that transitions with our economic growth, we will do
our best to accommodate community needs while
preserving community identity.
If you are an organization and want to head waste
management in a particular location, we provide
waste management consultations to help you devise a
system that works for you, your community,
municipality, or project area. Doko will work with you
every step of the way to conduct waste assessments,
market feasibility surveys, awareness programs, mind
maps with local stakeholders, setting up waste
management infrastructure and necessary support
systems such as local waste management
committees.
We work to bridge the gap between municipalities,
international and national organizations, and local
community members to create long-lasting,
comprehensive, and self-sustaining solutions
including:
Installation and design of required segregation
waste bins;
Planning of a CRC (Community Recycling Center)
or MRF (Material Recovery Facility);
Providing infrastructure to bail or incinerate
waste that cannot be recycled;
Creating a WMC (Waste Management Committee),
a local task force who can help us establish and
lead waste management in project areas.

Our Project Areas

Gunsa Waste Management Project - Triangle Génération Humanitaire and Association

for Rural Social Welfare Nepal - Aug 2019 to Feb 2020

Madi Eco Village Project - Connecting Spaces, Elite Enterprises, Sustainable Mountain
Architecture (SMA), REPIC (Renewable Energy, Energy and Resource Efficiency Promotion
in Developing and Transition Countries) - Nov 2019

Rigaun Waste Assessment and System Design - Nepal Monaco Cultural Association
and Association Nepal Avignon - February 2020 - Ongoing

Langtang Valley Waste Management Assessment - Atmosfair - April to May 2021

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Our Approach for Rural and Mountain Waste Consultancy

Waste Audits and Assessment

Our assessments help us design a Waste Management System and identify
key waste management strategies using tools like waste audits, interviews,
market feasibility studies, and surveys.

Long Term Waste Managment Plan

Planning plays an imperative role in achieving sustainable waste management
as it provides an overview of all the waste generated and provides treatment
options for different categories of waste.

System Design and Monitoring

System Design entails discussing the ideal location, infrastructure and
systems for a Community Recycling Center (CRC), a collection center for
dry recyclables.

Community Recycling Center Design

A site assessment will be established (if needed) to build a CRC where we
provide the layout, requirements, and functionality of the CRC.

Waste Collection System Set-up

Systems for collection of different waste streams, parties responsible for
attending to collection, collection routes, and the end markets for all collected
items will be planned in detail.

Comprehensive Workshops and Training

Training will be provided for different stakeholders so they are better equipped
to manage waste. We also train individuals directly involved in the waste
management system to foster its smooth operation.

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Project Based Partnerships
Doko Recyclers works with a wide range of stakeholders on long and short term project based partnerships to
strengthen waste management for different sectors and cities. Our project based partnership models allows you
to curate your own project around the topic of waste management and sustainability ranging from bin installation
to capacity building training and proper disposal of e-waste.

Our past project based partnerships have included:

Community and school recycling and waste management projects headed by development
agencies (INGOs and NGOs) or local governing bodies;

Curation of green events and waste management to promote sustainability and recycling as
standalone projects or CSR initiatives.

OUR PROJECT AREAS

Waste Management and Community Outreach at
Swayambhu World Heritage Site
Doko Recyclers worked with UNESCO, the Federation of Swayambhu
Management and Conservation, the Department of Archaeology, and Organic
Life to set up a complete waste management system in Swayambhu and make
the heritage site a true model in cleanliness and upkeep for the rest of the
country. We conducted 5 cleanup sessions with cleaners, vendors, nuns,
students, and administrative staff based in Swayambhu and helped set up 2
monkey-proof bins with a volume of 750 liters with compartments for recyclable
waste, organic waste, and landfill waste.

Green School Project

Together with Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), we
developed proper waste management systems in 7 different government
schools in the Kathmandu Valley. We have set up bins in all these schools and
will conduct awareness workshops, waste audits, and form eco-clubs to teach
students about sustainability practices. It is important to educate students about
recycling so they can start building a greener Nepal with us.

Cleanup Campaigns
We partnered with the Kageshwori Manohara Municipality and New Star Pole
Schools student group, Himalayan Heroes to conduct a cleanup
campaign for World Environment Day, 2019. The participating students were
taught to separate the recyclable waste collected from non-recyclable waste so
any recyclable waste collected during the event would be sent to be recycled by
Doko Recyclers. 27 schools and 3,000 students participated in the Cleanup
Campaign. At the end of the day, students collected 417 kilograms of recyclable
waste.

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Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
Corporate Social Responsibility activities are policies or acts within a company that allow it to better society and
make employees civic-minded. We allow companies and organizations to give back to the
community and further sustainability by providing opportunities to recycle at their premises, fund waste
management awareness workshops, or set up bins in public spaces. Here are some ways companies have
worked with us to protect the environment and instill a culture of recycling in Kathmandu and beyond.

Refresh and Recycle PET Collection Campaign

We worked with Coca Cola Nepal and Bottlers Nepal Limited to place PET Bottles
Collection Bins in Patan Durbar Square, Tribhuvan University, Patan Hospital,
Swayambhu, and Boudha where the public can place their used PET bottles. We
collect all the bottles that are placed in these bins to recycle them. The bins will be
handed over to the local governing bodies after two years for long term
sustainability and effective upkeep.

PET (polyethylene terephthalate) is a type of plastic that is

recyclable and is widely used to make bottles.

Professional Recycling Services

We promote and enable smart sustainability by providing companies with waste management options
ranging from doorstep recycling pick-up to repurposing discarded items with environmental awareness along
the way.

Regular pick up services for dry recyclables;

E-waste management;
Value for recyclable materials;
Online Dashboard access;
Impact certificate with customized impact statistics;
On-site shredding services for disposing confidential documents;
Safe data destruction and IT asset disposal;
Awareness workshop for your team on waste management and
recycling.

OUR PARTNERS

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Green Event Management
We partner with event organizers across the Kathmandu
Valley to salvage dry recyclables during events. Such
partnerships not only serve to retrieve recyclables from
events but are an excellent way to teach the general
public the importance of segregating waste at source.
We have worked with organizers to create green and
sustainable events such as concerts, 5k runs, film
festivals, fairs, seminars, etc. We provide recycling bins
to collect recyclable waste generated at the venue. We
also train event ground staff and volunteers to man the
bins so that event attendees can segregate their waste at
source. At the end of the event, we take these
collected recyclables to our facility to sort and recycle.
By simply spreading awareness about sustainability at
your event, you end up saving landfill space, natural
resources, and Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions.
Any event organizer who wants to make a
change and organize a sustainable event
can reach out to us as we are open for event
partnerships no matter what the nature or
scale of the event is.
Since 2018, we have provided waste
management services to over 50 events
servicing an average number of 10,000
attendees. Some events we have helped
become sustainable are:
Jazzmandu
Himalayan Outdoor Festival
Seashells on the Mountains

LOOKING FOR CSR ACTIVITIES?

Banks and financial institutions can install public bins to encourage communities to segregate waste at
source. The recyclable waste will be collected by Doko Recyclers which diverts waste away from the
landfills and into our factories.

ICT (Information, Communication, and Technology) companies can act as collection points for e-waste.
E-waste is hazardous if disposed of improperly. Doko can help manage e-waste either by dismantling
and recycling, or refurbishing and remarketing.

Online stores can create buy back and discount schemes for customers that collect a certain amount of
packaging material from the store. Doko will buy the collected recyclables and ensure it is recycled.

Supermarkets can place bins for customers to return recyclable items bought from the store in exchange
for vouchers. Customers can receive discounts through the vouchers and Doko will collect the recycla-
bles and provide ‘cash for trash’.

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Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR)
Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) is a policy tool to enable manufacturing and distribution
companies to take responsibility for their end-of-life plastic or e-waste products as well as packaging material
to foster a circular economy and protect our planet. We want companies to realize the potential for their end of
life or discarded products to be recycled and recovered as resources.

Refresh and Recycle - PET Collection Campaign

We have been working with the Coca Cola Company in Nepal to collect
end-of-life PET bottles so they enter the recycling stream instead of the
landfill or worse, our rivers. So far, we have been able to collect more than
one tonne of PET bottles in a year!

Electronic Waste Voucher Scheme

We have partnered up with CG Digital to purchase end-of-life
electronic products and gadgets from their consumers, after which the
consumers get vouchers from CG. We then refurbish and resell the
electronic waste (e-waste), or dismantle them safely and recycle them.

Professional E-waste Managment

Syakar Philips Nepal has a voucher system set up with Doko
Recyclers wherein every customer who provides us with an e-waste
item receives a voucher providing a small discount on their
electronic products.

Him Electronics, the official distributor of Samsung Electronics,

recycles all their electronic waste with Doko Recyclers along with
perusing our data destruction services for used and discarded
e-waste items.

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Our Impact

Doko Recyclers services over 100 corporate,

educational, and development institutions as well as
4,200 households, directly impacting 45,000
individuals and promoting a culture of recycling and
sustainability. Every institution or community working
with Doko attends awareness workshops to learn how
to segregate waste at source properly, adopt
sustainability practices (reduce, reuse, recycle, and
rethink consumption habits) to lower waste output
and eventually carbon footprint. Doko has conducted
over 200 awareness workshops reaching over 10,000
people since mid-2017 who now have a better
understanding of waste management and recycling.

Doko Overall Impact and Stats (15th July 2017 - 15th July 2021)

1000 tonnes +
7500 Mwh+ 620 KI
Amount of Recyclables
Energy Saved Oil Saved
Collected

9300 Cu.feet + 20000 KI+ 12000+

Landfill Space Saved Water Saved Trees Saved

140 tonnes + 40,000 Kg+ 825 Kg+

Amount of E-waste Greenhouse Gas Toxic Chemicals Diverted
Collected Emissions Saved from Landfills

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Partner and Consult with Us
Doko Recyclers is interested in partnering with organizations and companies that prioritize sustainability.
We develop waste management systems that fit varying needs, helping communities and organizations
protect the environment and contribute to a circular economy

For Consultancy and Project-Based Partnerships:

+ 977 9801104497

For Recycling Services and Clientele Inquiries:

+ 977 9802071515

For Awareness Workshops:

+ 977 9802071516

Contact us at: www.dokorecyclers.com

Doko Recyclers Pvt. Ltd.
Sano Thimi
Bhaktapur
Nepal

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