What Needs to be Done
Clarifying the Concept, Goal and Strategy of Waste Management System
All parties concerned must be assisted to learn and understand that waste management system
is a multi-dimensional system that concerns many aspects and issues. Furthermore, all of these
issues and aspects are closely interrelated. To tackle one single aspect may sometimes do
more harms than good. The socioeconomic, politic, cultural, governance, laws, institutional,
financial and level of technology and education of each specific area dictates the decision as
well as design of the waste management system. After all, the sound solid waste management
system must gears towards maximum benefits to the society as a whole, not for waste
management sake (UNEP/IETC, 1996)