# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shilshila-acharya
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:38:04.713Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shilshila-acharya"
name: "Shilshila Acharya"
slug: "shilshila-acharya"
description: "Shilshila Acharya is a Nepalese environmental scientist who led successful campaigns to increase Nepal's plastic recycling. She has reduced her country's use of plastic bags and she has recovered refuse abandoned by visiting mountaineers. In 2024 she joined the BBC's list of 100 inspiring women."
tagline: "Founder of one of Nepal’s large plastic recyclers"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Shilshila_acharya_2_cropped.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1901"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
  popularity:           43.47
  momentum:             4.885654885654887
  historical:           11.87213866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump