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Environment constitutes a very important part of our life. To understand life without studying the impact of environment is almost impossible. We use renewable and non-renewable resources in our day to day life. We have to be more careful in using resources especially non-renewable which will vanish as we use them. All human activities have impact on environment. This impact is increasing day by day as the population in the recent time has increased rapidly. Thus there is need for the awareness about the environmental issues. Household wastes also create environmental pollution if they are not disposed properly. In the present study the status of environmental awareness and waste disposal practices of homemakers of Sambalpur university campus, Burla, Odisha was studied. A total of fifty (n=50) homemakers were selected as sample. An Environment attitude scale was used to assess the environmental awareness level and a self formulated questionnaire was used to determine their household waste disposal practices. Purposive sampling method was used for data collection. The major findings of the study were most of the respondents have moderately favorable attitude and some have neutral attitude and none of them have extremely favorable and extremely unfavorable attitude towards the environmental pollution. An analysis of waste disposal practices showed that most of them give paper, plastic bags, bottles, hard plastics, glass bottles to the waste collector. Some of the respondents sorted out their waste before disposal, composting their organic waste and using it for their kitchen garden and household plants, recycle and reuse their waste into decoration items.