National Waste Management Strategy 2019.

This National Waste Management Strategy 2019, covering the period of 2019-2030, aims to reduce greenhouse gases emissions, including short-lived-climate-pollutants (SLCPs), from the waste sector.
The Strategy emphasizes the importance of appropriate management to respond to waste as an emerging environmental issue confronting the country. The objectives of the Strategy include: 1. Inculcate a deeper sense of environmental responsibility by consuming less material; 2. Reduction of waste generation from goods and services by choosing the more natural and less wasteful options; 3. Effectively manage waste following integrated concept to ensure maximum material recovery and minimize quantity of waste to be disposed; 4. To promote participation of all stakeholders in waste management in order to achieve targets set for material recovery; 5. Improve waste management service delivery; 6. Ensure proper treatment of all types of waste.