Waste
Management Authority is under the direct
control of Board of Management and 13 staff
members are employed by the Authority.
Statute
Strategy
Board of Management
Staff
Strategy
45 Local Authorities were clustered to form 7 Waste Management Zones centering 6 Municipal Councils namely, Colombo, Kotte, Dehiwala, Moratuwa, Negambo, Gampaha and Kalutara Urban Council, to have a participatory approach to solve the waste problem in the Province.
An Advisory Committee
was appointed under the chairmanship of
Hon Chief Minister of the Western Province
to advise and Guide the Authority to implement
the zonal approach in the Province. Rest
of the members in the Advisory Committee
are opposition leader of the Province, representatives
from the governing and opposition political
parties, Mayors of Municipal Council, Chairman
of the Kalutara Urban Council, Commissioner,
Department of Local Government, Secretary
to the Chief Minister and the Director of
WMA.
A step has been taken to strengthen the legal structure in Waste Management in the Province by way of amending the Statute and introduce rules/by-laws to curb the bad practices of waste management
.
