Welcome to National Solid Waste Association of India's Website

For latest update please visit http://www.nswai.org/

ABOUT ENVIS
A memorandum of understanding between ENVIS through Senior Advisor, Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) Government of India (ENVIS- capacity Enhancement program) and National Solid Waste Association of India (NSWAI) have signed on ENVIS- Capacity Enhancement Programme on Urban Municipal Waste Management (UMWM) since 2002 and this association has been recognized as NSWAI- ENVIS center sponsored by MoEF.

ABOUT NSWAI
National Solid Waste Association of India (NSWAI) is the only leading professional non-profit organization in the field of Solid Waste Management including Toxic and Hazardous Waste and also Biomedical Waste in India. It was formed on 25th January 1996.

MoEF, New Delhi, Government of India has identified NSWAI as one of the centers in capacity building projects of World Bank in Urban Municipal Solid Waste Management.

NSWAI helps the Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF), New Delhi in various fields of solid waste management in making policies and action plans and is entrusted the responsibility of collecting information and various data related to solid waste management from the municipalities of Urban Class-I cities(population more than 1Lakh) and Urban Class-II cities(population above 50,000), collate and disseminate the information to website which is linked to national and international organizations.

The association is a member of the International Solid Waste Association (ISWA), Copenhagen, Denmark and provides forum for exchange of information and expertise in the field of Solid Waste Management at the national and international level.

Download (.PDF format) - CDM or Carbon Credits Questionnaire for projects on MSW dumping ground

The 7th International Exhibition and Conference for Waste Management, Recycling, Renewal Energy & Environment Technologies
From 31st May to 3rd June
For more details, visit http://2011.sibico.com

WHAT'S NEW

8 January 2011 - MCD wants just garbage on Facebook, People complain about bad roads, Illegal constructions, encroachments ...
Risha Chitlangia TNN
New Delhi: The genie is out of thebottle and MCD is finding putting it back quite difficult... :: more ::

8 January 2011 - Engine on a mission
Vacuum cleaner on track
Simit Bhagat | TNN
For decades, an army of rag-pickers would march up and down the city's railway tracks gathering empty plastic bottles, wrappers and other garbage that had been thoughtlessly discarded by commuters...:: more ::