After initial funding support for start-up costs by AKF-UK/EU and NORAD through AKCSP, and mobilization of local resources to create an endowment fund, the project now sustains operations through user-fees and utilizes local resources and collaborates with local institutions for awareness raising programmes, independent of any external donor support.
HEC executes the first and only community-based municipal service in the country. Its approach to solid waste management is distinctive in that it has used an innovative approach by linking local voluntarism and technical capacity of a local NGO with the social responsibility of the private sector while keeping close coordination & linkages with the local administration/government.

Almost 90 % of the clients are from the business community; shopkeepers, traders, cabins, hotels, restaurants, barbershops, auto workshops etc. Other clients include; Institutional/organizational clients like hospitals, offices, Schools, Colleges, Banks, Mosques/Community Centers etc. and a small number of individual households near the roadsides are also users. Total number of users is around 600 and 85% of them pay their user fee regularly.