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A scheme to encourage climbers to bring their waste down from Mount Everest is being scrapped - with Nepalese authorities telling the BBC it has been a failure.

Climbers had been required to pay a deposit of $4,000 (£2964), which they would only get back if they brought at least 8kg (18lbs) of waste back down with them.

It was hoped it would begin to tackle the rubbish problem on the world's highest peak, which is estimated to be covered in some 50 tonnes of waste.

But after 11 years - and with the rubbish still piling up - the scheme is being shelved because it "failed to show a tangible result".

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[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 7 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

How much waste they take up with them?

If it's more than 8kg, I'm guessing that the only missing requirement for the refund is to increase the number to make it that every climber brings down more than they take up.

In other words, put every climber on the scales before they go up and unless they weigh more when they come back, they don't get their money back.

Bonus reward for each extra kg.

[–] qupada@fedia.io 1 points 5 hours ago

From The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:

The fabulously beautiful planet Bethselamin is now so worried about the cumulative erosion by ten billion visiting tourists a year that any net imbalance between the amount you eat and the amount you excrete while on the planet is surgically removed from your body weight when you leave: so every time you go to the lavatory there it is vitally important to get a receipt.

Published in 1979, so nearly a half century old idea 😉

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 6 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

If you had read the article you wouldn't need to guess.

[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 1 points 6 hours ago

You mean like the Nepalese government did?