Briquette from worn-out, unusable bank notes

Kathmandu- Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) has brought the technology of making briquette from the torn, worn-out, soiled and trashed bank notes. 

This technology was first brought from the Netherlands. With the use of this technology, the torn and unusable currency notes are burnt in furnace and the ash produced from this is made into 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... Read More