Legal and Institutional Arrangements for Solid Waste Management (SWM)

Legal and institutional arrangements for solid waste management (SWM) refers to the existence of national laws, regulations, policies, and institutional frameworks governing solid waste management in a country. This includes the presence of a national SWM law, rules and regulations for public–private partnerships, national strategies or plans to manage plastic waste, information system on SWM, and defined institutional responsibilities, such as a national agency or department to enforce SWM laws and regulations, and publicly available information on SWM such as budgets, waste collection points, and collection and recycling rates. Users can download the entire What a Waste 3.0 dataset along with individual data sources and explanatory notes here: https://www.worldbank.org/en/publication/what-a-waste/. To access the What a Waste 3.0 report as well as its summaries in English, French, Japanese, and Spanish, please visit https://hdl.handle.net/10986/44141.