Many countries around the world have very specific policies on recycling all types of waste. To generate electricity, fuel and heating, exhaust gas, wood scraps, Korea has turned household waste and other waste into energy. Meanwhile, Singapore implemented a waste treatment program to increase recycling rates through sorting waste at source from households, markets, and businesses. The recycling rate is currently high at 60%.

Along with propagating, mobilizing and instructing people to collect and not dump waste indiscriminately on roads or public places, there needs to be specific regulations on collection, transportation and treatment of household solid waste. In particular, there must be a construction waste collection service like the current household waste collection, followed by waste recycling, so that the waste becomes a "resource" as some countries are doing.