The residents of Radhakrishna tol of the Jorpati Village Development Committee in Kathmandu have shown the government a way out of its decade-old attempt at creating a landfill site to deal with the capital's waste. The 600 families of Radhakrishna tol, under the name Local Effort for Environment Protection and Locality Development Committee, have built their own waste recycling plant. The three-chambered recycling plant cost the committee around Rs 100,000, which was raised through a donation drive within the community. The 160 kg of waste that Radhakrishna tol produces everyday is collected from residents' homes for weekly fee of Rs 20. The recycling plant hopes to become self-reliant in the near future through the sale of composted manure produced at the plant. The plant can produce about 1,000 kg of compost a month, which means an average earning of Rs 15,000 a month-sufficient to maintain the daily waste collection schedule, and the recycling plant, and pay the salary of the two people employed to operate the plant.