Preamble: Whereas, it is expedient to amend and consolidate the laws relating to the most urgently needed service like solid waste management to make arrangement for the systematic and effective management of solid waste by minimizing the solid waste at source, re-using, processing or disposing of the solid waste, and to maintain the clean and healthy environment by minimizing the adverse effects of the solid waste in the public health and environment. 

Now, therefore, be it enacted by the Constitution Assembly in the capacity of the Legislative Parliament pursuant to Article 83 of the Interim Constitution of Nepal, 2007.