Commenced with the slogan of "two hours of volunteerism in a week for the nation", the Bagmati cleanup campaign has entered its 11th year and has managed as high as 20,000 metric tonnes of garbage.
A total of 389,983 tonnes of emitted garbage are sent to landfill sites, 315,069 tonnes are dumped on riverbanks and 22,075 tonnes of garbage are burned down.