National Policy on Waste Management.

The National Policy on Waste Management(2020) has as vision to manage waste sustainably for a healthy life and a cleaner environment for all and as goal to provide coherent and comprehensive directions for waste management in the country covering all forms of wastes to meet the acute short term challenges in line with medium and long term sustainable solutions up to 2030 with entrusted accountability.
The Policy then provides specific policy statements covering different forms of waste: solid (municipal solid waste, packaging waste, industrial waste, construction and demolition waste, healthcare waste, electrical and Electronic waste, radio-active, marine waste, food, agriculture and livestock waste) liquid (sewage, industrial waste, chemical waste, leachate, contamination of runoff with petroleum, agrochemicals and other emerging contaminants food handling establishments, grey water) and gaseous waste. Further policy statements are related to: knowledge management and capacity building, education and awareness creation, research, technology development; institutional mechanisms, co-ordination, communication and partnerships among national, provincial and local authority levels, public and private sector, community and other non-governmental organizations; to monitoring and evaluation, feedback and reporting; to legal and enforcement mechanisms; to financial mechanisms and non-financial incentives; to compliance with international treaties/conventions; and related to The way forward.