Waste treatment involves managing waste from creation to disposal through activities like collection, transport, and treatment. It also includes the legal framework around recycling and waste management. Waste is classified into categories like solid, liquid, e-waste, radioactive, biomedical, agricultural, and industrial waste. Poor waste treatment can negatively impact the environment through water and soil contamination and pollution, and the economy through issues like disease outbreaks. Proper treatment provides benefits like more efficient decision making during incidents, encouraging stakeholder cooperation, and enhancing adaptation to climate change impacts. Key waste treatment policies in India include acts governing environment protection, hazardous waste, biomedical waste, and municipal solid waste.