Kathmandu, May 2 -- The Kathmandu Metropolitan City has an ambitious plan up its sleeve-converting the dust collected from the city roads by broomer machines into bricks.

Hari Kumar Shrestha, chief at the Environment Division at the metropolis, said that the metropolis is in consultation with a Japanese team, among other agencies, to look into the possibility and the feasibility of the plan.

"We are in the initial phase of our consultations to find ways to materialise this plan. This, in our view, is the best way to convert the collected road dust into something useful," said Shrestha. According to him, if everything goes as planned, the metropolis will be using the new technology by the next fiscal year.

Kishor Thapa, an urban planner...