Solid waste management (SWM) is an integral part of an environmental management system. SWM approaches have been modified into a more practical and effective option to establish sustainability based on the “reduce”, “reuse”, and “recycle” (3R) principles. This review provides an overview of a wide range of existing SWM strategies with the following key objectives: (i) to comprehensively describe current technologies, strategic innovations, and monitoring tools, (ii) to provide an overview of prevailing waste management scenarios across different countries, (iii) to identify the roles of life cycle assessment (LCA) and other modeling tools in SWM, and (iv) to showcase feasible approaches for sustainable recycling and utilization of solid wastes. The current review finds that geographical positions and economic status of nations are important to dictate waste characteristics. A number of economic and LCA models have been described to facilitate future workers vis-à-vis organizations for the selection of appropriate waste management algorithms and for the evaluation of their eventual performance. In addition, this paper showcases various innovative solutions that have been reported for the achievement of smart and sustainable waste management plans in many countries.

固体废物管理（SWM）是环境管理系统的组成部分。SWM方法已被修改为更实用和有效的选择，以基于“减少”，“重用”和“回收”（3R）原则建立可持续性。这篇综述概述了现有的广泛SWM战略，其主要目标如下：（i）全面描述当前技术，战略创新和监控工具，（ii）概述不同国家的现行废物管理方案，（iii）识别生命周期评估（LCA）和其他建模工具在SWM中的作用，以及（iv）展示用于可持续回收和利用固体废物的可行方法。当前的审查发现，国家的地理位置和经济地位对于决定废物的特征很重要。已经描述了许多经济和LCA模型，以方便未来的工人与组织进行面对面的交流，以选择合适的废物管理算法并评估其最终绩效。此外，本文还展示了已报告的各种创新解决方案，这些解决方案已在许多国家实现了智能且可持续的废物管理计划。