The Embassy of Israel has launched an Environment Conservation Activity initiative to highlight the issues related to the environment. Under the initiative, various activities will be organised particularly in schools with a slogan ‘stop pollution: used batteries collection.’

The embassy has already cooperated with schools of the valley including Kathmandu Pragya Kunja School, Shanti Sikshya School, KMC School, Kavya School, etc. in reducing pollution with individual steps of their students; the students collected used batteries (alkaline batteries, coin cell batteries, and other non-rechargeable batteries), brought it to the school, which later were taken for recycling at DOKO Recyclers, according to a press release issued by Embassy.

On 3 January 2022, an event was held at Kathmandu Pragya Kunja School to hand over collected used batteries with an important message of responsibility of an individual step towards a cleaner environment. The jars of batteries were collected and handed over to DOKO Recyclers.

Ramsahay Prasad Yadav, Minister for Forests and Environment has attended the program. Appreciating the initiative of collecting old batteries and sending them for recycling, Yadav said, “This activity is very important in today’s time. Human activities are hampering themselves, flora, fauna, and nature, as a whole. This initiative will definitely contribute to environmental protection, as batteries are something that is used in everything, ranging from mobile phones, computers to other electronic devices hence, it’s crucial to recycle them.” He further said that socio-economic development should not happen at the expense of environmental degradation and we should preserve our nature.