I have chosen the project theme of waste management for the EWB Challenge 2014 in Nepal and in my essay I will try to highlight the social justice issues which are both evidently as if subtly intertwined with it. Hasty and unbridled urbanization, combined with a lack of public awareness regarding poor participation by local municipalities, have led to a waste management and disposal crisis in Nepal (Asian Development Bank 2013). The urbanization process seems to be growing at a worrying rate, exerting enormous pressure on the various municipal services regarding waste management issues. Currently, most waste materials are not adequately managed at the local level, and this in turn is creating a serious danger to both health and the environment, particularly in slum areas, where inhabitants do not have sufficient opportunities to opt for better services and are also quite often neglected by the municipalities they fall into (Wateraid.org nd). It is widely known that most of the garbage collected by municipalities in Nepal is haphazardly discarded in public places or natural resources like river, with the exception of Tribhuwan Nagar, Kathmandu and Pokhara because in these places there are Sanitary Land sites or landfills II created for waste management. But despite the creation of such sanitary waste management sites, most industrial waste is still carelessly thrown into rivers and left untreated at disposal sites. Medical waste is destroyed by the institutions concerned but sometimes even this does not reach the places for which it is intended. A sizable portion of urban Nepal is suffering f...... middle of paper ......ces and Challenges, Waste Management 25." 555-562. Science Direct, 2005.Riley, Donna. Engineering and Social Justice . Morgan and Claypool Publishers, 2010. SWMRMC/UN-HABITAT. 10 Steps to a Clean City Technical Guidelines for Solid Waste Management in Nepal (Draft, Lalitpur, 2008. Tuladhar, and A Bania Composting Plant). , Municipal Waste Expertise. org. http://www.wateraid.org/~/media/Publications/solid-waste-management-nepal.pdf (accessed 19 April 2014). and waste management: scientific and available data Options Report of a WHO workshop, Copenhagen: WHO Regional Office for Europe, 2007.