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The waste management process is mostly defined by waste management hierarchy. The hierarchy explains how to manage waste which includes different processes like reduce, reuse, recycle and finally disposal of waste (Sushil, 1990). These waste management processes framed in the hierarchical relation defined on the basis of the best way to manage waste without destructing the environment. The hierarchical representation of waste management promotes reuse and recycling instead of disposal of waste in landfill (Wilson et al. , 2006). Accounting of waste plays a vital role in managing waste, it intensifies the literature by its knowledge base (Adams, 2002). The literature also defines that waste can be managed in different ways of which the most acceptable way is the one that not only protects the environment but is also affordable. This indicates that waste management is the deductible process by which the amount of waste can be reduced (Porter and Van der Linde, 1995). Literature also highlights that controlling waste generation during production results in lesser or no waste to manage. Thus, reduction comes at the top of the waste management hierarchy (Price and Joseph, 2000). Waste can be defined as input and output waste; the term input waste implies for the unnecessary input to the process which has not been extensively reported in the literature. Hence, the waste is also defined as an unnecessary input to the system and undesirable output from the system, and input waste is mainly generated in the service sector (Sushil, 2015). This input waste introduces the new paradigm of waste management in the organization. With the concept of input waste, the paper contributes through developing the hierarchical relationship between the waste management factors through total interpretive structural modeling (TISM). TISM is widely used for modeling conceptual framework in different arena of management and technical fields (Sagar et al. , 2013; Srivastava and Sushil, 2013). TISM is used for developing a generic conceptual framework for managing waste in the organization by considering the waste in terms of factors. This concept is developed by answering "what," "how" and "why" questions. These fundamental questions help in understanding the different aspects of managing waste. While answering what, the literature has been surveyed and important factors have been extracted from the...