Urban areas are a focal point of environmental problems. Their impacts extend over a wide range of spatial scales, i.e. the household, the place of work, the neighborhood, the city the wider region and ultimately the world. In the rapidly growing cities of the developing countries, urban solid waste management is currently regarded as one of the most immediate an serious problems faced by the city authorities. To face this challenge, a project entitled as “Integrated Management and Safe Disposal of Municipal Solid Waste in Least Developed Asian Countries” shortly termed as “WasteSafe”, a 12 months (14 April, 2004 to 13 April, 2005) feasibility study was conducted at the Department of Civil Engineering, Khulna University of Engineering & Technology. The project was co-funded by the European Commission through its Asia Pro Eco Program and conducted in close cooperation with Prodipon, NGO, Bangladesh; Tribhuvan University, Nepal; Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand; Karlsruhe University, Germany and University of Leeds, United Kingdom. The case study areas are the seven mega cities – Dhaka, Chottogram, Khulna, Rajshahi, Sylhet, Barisal and Kathmandu. This project explored an integrated solid waste management concept based on storage and separation of waste at a source/family level, reuse and recycling, primary collection, on-site storage in an hygienic way, efficient collection and transportation, appropriate waste treatment and eventually and safe disposal of residual wastes. WasteSafe also critically identified the present status and constraints of MSW management of the study areas and proposed an approach to solve this problem putting priorities on some specific areas. It advocates the need of demonstration projects for the reality check of the employed approach for required refinement. Then a three years research project, named as WasteSafe II, funded by the EU-Asia Pro Eco II Program was undertaken by Khulna University Engineering & Technology in close cooperation with Khulna City Corporation, Bangladesh; Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand; Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany; Bauhaus International Research & Education Center, German and Lublin University of Technology, Poland; aiming to develop a safe and sustainable management of MSW in Bangladesh through the practical application and the reality check of WasteSafe approach. In this project Khulna, the third largest city of Bangladesh was considered as the main case study area. WasteSafe II (2007-2009) project, 36 months tenure, was completed successfully in December 31, 2009. WasteSafe Internation Conference is one of the major activities of this project and hence the designated International Conference on Solid Waste Manangement: Technical, Environmental and Socio-Economical Contexts – WasteSafe 2009 was held on November 9-10, 2009. The success of this conference encouraged the organizers to continue this event in a regular pattern.