This report provides suggestions to improve the sustainability of the waste management of the Hogeschool van Amsterdam (HVA), a higher educational institute located in Amsterdam. The HVA as an institute has an outspoken ambition to improve their waste management with a focus on sustainability. They previously asked several student groups to research specific elements of sustainability within their waste management. This report however, will approach the waste management as a whole and will shed light on what is important to successfully improve their waste management considering all its aspects. The report starts off with a literature review which explains the holistic nature of waste management dilemmas. The literature also shows that the success of sustainable waste management largely depends on the willingness of all involved parties to comply. Therefore, it is important to first create an in-depth understanding of the organizational structure behind the waste management, to ensure all individual management bodies within the organizational structure are on the same page. This is also reflected in the explained mythological approach and the formulation of the research questions. Following the re- search questions, first the organizational structure of the HVAs waste management will be evaluated with a series of interviews and a survey. The interviewees were chosen based on their close involvement with a specific management body within the organizational structure. After the waste management as an organization is established, the waste streams within the HVA are estimated. For a holistic understanding of the waste streams an estimation on the quantity, quality, and composition of all the waste that comes through the HVA is determined. The estimations were made by using data that was made available by the HVAs current waste disposal partner RENEWI, and where later confirmed by verifying them with comparable data sets. Additionally the material based waste streams were evaluated on their environmental impacts, when disposed of on different levels in the waste Hierarchy. With the full understanding of the waste itself and the organization, potential improvement areas are determined. To find fitting solutions the literature on waste managements of higher educational institutes around the world were looked at and experts where approached for in-depth interviews. The results once again emphasized the importance of a holistic approach, pointing out that the success of a sustainable waste management can be significantly harmed by a single unwilling or unknowing actor. It is therefore suggested to involve the students as much as possible, to establish a continuous spread of awareness. Another result is the importance of knowledge on the waste, this can be achieved by better regulating the purchases and drawing information from them. As well as performing waste audits to determine the outflow waste. Putting these two data sets next to each other can uncover preventable problems.