日常的人類活動影響環境和自然材料和能源的消耗。社會面臨的挑戰是盡量減少這些影響，維持可接受的環境質量，并為后代維持生活質量和資源供應。固體廢物的產生是不可避免的，因為所有產品都有生命的盡頭，人類和動物產生的廢物必須加以管理，以維持衛生、健康和整潔的城市和開放的農村環境。《廢物管理與研究》(WM&R)雜志的一個主要目標是通過傳播基于科學的可靠信息來應對這些挑戰，例如在廢物預防、廢物回收、從不適合回收或再利用的材料殘渣中回收能源、廢物處理和廢物處理方面。WM&R是一份經過同行評審的期刊，它滿足了學術界、政府、工業、規劃、工程、管理和運營等領域的廢物管理專業人士對新和科學信息日益增長的需求。WM&R以評論文章、原創文章、短文和給編輯寫信的形式呈現原創作品。環境監測和評價鼓勵提交關于可持續廢物管理設計、作業、政策或做法以及處理發展中國家和發達國家所面臨問題的有組織的手稿。質量流量分析、生命周期評估、政策規劃和系統管理,創新過程和技術及其工程特性和成本效率的關鍵問題之一WM&R試圖覆蓋通過良好的文檔記錄報告新概念,系統,實踐經驗(包括案例研究),理論和實驗研究工作。一般不接受范圍有限或有專門用途的稿件。對特殊廢物流或只與固體廢物管理有關的產品進行測試和表征的研究，通常是針對這類主題的期刊。當模型和軟件應用程序在公共領域仍然可訪問時，關于建模和軟件開發的手稿是可以接受的。手稿必須根據現有的文獻和知識，包括最近和較老的出版物，建立良好的基礎。同行審稿員和編輯將審稿作為出版的關鍵標準;理論和/或實踐中結果的原創性、新穎性和適用性。文章必須用英國英語寫清楚，作者必須避免重復已經發表的信息，避免引用沒有參考依據的觀點。嚴格遵守這些和其他WM&R手稿提交指南是必要的，以觸發同行審查過程，可能導致隨后接受出版。

Routine human activities impact the environment and the consumption of natural materials and energy resources. The challenge to society is to minimize these impacts, maintain an acceptable quality of the environment, and sustain the quality of life and resource supplies for future generations. The generation of solid wastes is inevitable because all products have an end of life and humans and animals create wastes that have to be managed to maintain hygienic, healthy and tidy urban and open country environments. A key objective of the Waste Management and Research (WM&R) journal is to address these challenges through dissemination of scientifically based reliable information, e.g. in terms of waste prevention, waste recycling, recovery of energy from material residuals not suited for recycling or reuse, waste treatment, and waste disposal.WM&R is a peer-reviewed journal that satisfies the growing demand for new and scientific information that can be referenced by waste management professionals in academia, government, industry, planning, engineering, management and operation. WM&R presents original work in the form of review articles, original articles, short articles, and letters to the editor.WM&R encourages the submission of well organized manuscripts relating to sustainable waste management designs, operations, policies or practices and those addressing issues facing both developing and developed countries. Mass flow analyses, life cycle assessments, policy planning and system administration, innovative processes and technologies and their engineering features and cost effectiveness are among the key issues that WM&R seeks to cover through well documented reports on new concepts, systems, practical experience (including case studies), and theoretical and experimental research work. Manuscripts with limited scope or specialised application are normally not accepted. Studies on testing and characterisation of special waste streams or products with only a peripheral pertinence to solid waste management are normally referred to journals that focus on such topics. Manuscripts about modelling and software development are acceptable, when model and software applications remain accessible in the public domain. It is imperative that manuscripts are well founded in terms of existing literature and knowledge, including both recent and older publications.Peer reviewers and editors evaluating manuscripts for publication consider as key criteria; originality, novelty and applicability of results in theory and/or in practice. Articles must be clearly written in UK English and authors must avoid duplication of information already published and avoid citing opinions without referenced foundations. Strict compliance with these and other WM&R manuscript submission guidelines is necessary to trigger the peer review process that could lead to subsequent acceptance for publication.