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(Blog WTM Responsible Tourism)<\/strong>\u00a0So bad has the problem of rubbish and human waste despoiling the world\u2019s tallest mountain become, that starting this month, climbers on Mount Everest will have to bring back 8kg of rubbish and waste per person. This will be weighed and checked and only when confirmed will their climbing group be given back their $4,000 deposit.<\/p>\n

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So bad is the problem of rubbish that climbers on Mount Everest will have to bring back 8kg of rubbish and waste per person. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,287,258,262,267],"tags":[25,20],"yoast_head":"\nTurning waste management into a tourism attraction<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"So bad is the problem of rubbish that climbers on Mount Everest will have to bring back 8kg of rubbish and waste per person.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/2015\/04\/turning-waste-management-into-a-tourism-attraction\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Turning waste 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