Kedarnath records 50.30 tonnes of waste in first five months of year

Kedarnath generated 50.30 tonnes of waste during the first five months of this year, The Hindu reported. The figure was 2.5 times higher than the amount recorded during the same period last year, according to the supplied material. It also exceeded the total waste produced in any single year during the preceding three years.

The report did not provide the waste totals for those three earlier years or state how much was recorded in the comparable five-month period last year. It also did not identify the categories of waste included in the figure. No explanation was supplied for the increase.

The available material did not say whether the rise was linked to visitor numbers, local activity, changes in collection or measurement methods, or another factor. It also gave no information about how the waste was collected, transported or processed. The reported figure establishes the scale of waste recorded in Kedarnath during the opening five months of the year, but the supplied account contains no further details about the site’s waste-management arrangements.