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Waste management entails preventing trash, reusing waste, recycling, sorting recyclables from non-recyclables, and using waste as a fuel source. It also entails creating waste disposal systems and procedures, eradicating illegal dumps, and promoting waste management. The procedures involved in collecting, transferring, sorting, recycling, disposing, tracking, and monitoring trash are referred to as "waste management." The hardest part of recycling is gathering waste for recycling, or sorting waste, because it requires physical labour at numerous points, which raises the price of recycling. One of India's most urgent development challenges is solid waste management (SWM). Numerous studies have demonstrated that due to microbial decomposition, environmental conditions, refuse characteristics, and land-filling practices, inappropriate waste disposal results in the production of toxic gases and leachates. The majority of ULBs, however, struggle with a lack of adequate infrastructure as well as a number of institutional and strategic issues, such as insufficient institutional competency, constrained finance, and a lack of political will. Almost all Indian ULBs endure financial volatility, even though many of them do receive government funding. Every landfill site in India is already occupied, and the appropriate ULBs lack the funds to purchase more land. Since local authorities are unwilling to reserve property inside their borders for waste from neighbouring regions, finding additional dump sites is also difficult. To address these concerns, the Ministries of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) and Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) have created joint policies and programmes. The bulk of projects have, however, fallen short of their objectives due to stakeholder confusion, a lack of knowledge, and inadequate regulator enforcement. Each person generates 450 grams of waste each day, and this amount has been increasing at a rate of 1.3 percent every year. In 84,456 wards as of January 2020, waste production ranged from 32 MT to 22,080 MT daily. Sikkim generates the least (89 MT per day), while Maharashtra produces 22,080 MT per day (from 7,322 wards) (from 53 wards). Delhi produces the most garbage of any Union Territory, at 10,500 MT each day (UTs). In India, Daman & Diu have the lowest per-capita waste production. Solid waste processing, treatment, and disposal-composting, bio-methanation, recycling, refuse-derived fuel, incineration, pyrolysis, waste-to-wealth, and waste-to-energy are a few of the processing methods now used in India. This paper discusses recycling waste management in India.