Briquette from worn-out, unusable bank notes
19 May 2024
KATHMANDU: Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) has brought the technology of making briquette from the torn, worn-out, soiled, and trashed banknotes.
This technology was first brought from the Netherlands. With the use of this technology, the torn and unusable currency notes are burnt in a furnace, and the ash produced from this is made into a briquette.
Before this, the unusable old and tattered notes were destroyed by burning them. The Central Bank reached an agreement with a company in the Netherlands in 2020 to bring eight such incinerator machines.
Four machines have arrived in Nepal recently and one...
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