Medical camps and dental settings generate a wide variety of waste, including general municipal waste, infectious waste, sharps, human tissues, chemical waste, pharmaceutical waste, contaminated materials, and recyclable items. Because healthcare waste can contain pathogenic microorganisms, blood, body fluids, toxic chemicals, or sharp objects, its improper management can expose healthcare workers, patients, waste handlers, visitors, and the surrounding community to infection, injury, and environmental pollution. Therefore, waste management in medical camps and dental settings requires careful planning, segregation, collection, storage, transportation, treatment, and final disposal. Medical camps are often temporary facilities established in schools, community halls, open areas, disaster-affected locations, rural areas, or other places where permanent healthcare infrastructure may not be available. Their temporary nature creates special waste-management challenges. Waste generation may be unpredictable, facilities may have limited water and sanitation services, storage space may be inadequate, and trained waste-management personnel may not always be available. Before establishing a medical camp, a waste-management plan should therefore be prepared. The plan should identify the expected types and quantities of waste, provide appropriate containers and protective equipment, designate temporary storage areas, establish collection and transportation arrangements, and identify authorized treatment and disposal facilities. The first and most important principle is segregation of waste at the point of generation. Different categories of waste should never be mixed because mixing infectious or hazardous waste with ordinary waste increases the volume of hazardous material and makes safe treatment more difficult. Waste containers should be clearly labelled and, where applicable, colour-coded according to the prescribed biomedical-waste management system. General non-hazardous waste should be kept separate from infectious waste, sharps, pharmaceutical waste, and other hazardous materials. Staff should be trained to identify each category correctly and dispose of it immediately into the appropriate container. Sharps constitute one of the most dangerous categories of medical waste. Used needles, syringes with attached needles, blades, lancets, and other sharp instruments can cause accidental punctures and may transmit blood-borne infections. In medical camps, sharps should be discarded immediately after use into puncture-resistant, leak-proof containers. Needles should not be bent, broken, recapped, or manually removed unless a specific safe procedure requires it. Sharps containers should not be overfilled and should be securely closed before transportation and treatment. Their handling should be restricted to trained personnel. Infectious waste may include blood-stained cotton, gauze, dressings, disposable gloves, masks, contaminated plastics, and materials contaminated with body fluids. Such waste should be segregated from general waste and placed in