The increasing plastic pollution in Asia, including Nepal, has a huge impact on human and animal health and the environment. However, people's knowledge, attitude, and behavior about the harmful effects of plastic waste are inadequate which leads to enormous pollution of cities, villages, and rivers.

In Nepal, both national and local authorities are making efforts to reduce the use of plastic consumption. But at the current stage, success has been very limited. There are limited plastic collection points and plastic recycling facilities at the local level and little incentive for the population to dispose of plastic waste.

There is a high rate of poverty in Nepal, especially among poor and marginalized women who are mostly illiterate and have little skill. They also have little entrepreneurial knowledge and no access to means of production and credit through which used plastic could be recycled into the value chain.

Women play an important role in waste management in their families and as informal waste collectors. however, women's involvement in hygiene and waste disposal is unpaid or provides only an extremely low income.