Background: Household waste management is the process of collecting, transporting, processing or disposing, managing and monitoring waste materials. By properly managing them, many illnesses can be prevented.  Objectives: Are to assess the pre-test knowledge on household waste management among adult in selected urban community, to assess the impact of educational intervention on knowledge regarding household waste management, to associate the knowledge with socio demographic variables.  Methods: Pre experimental one group pre-test post-test design. Non Probability convenient sampling was used and 50 subjects were selected. Data was collected and analysed by using descriptive and inferential statistics.  Result: This study explained that in pre-test only 5 (10%) subjects had adequate knowledge, after education maximum samples knowledge improved 40 (80%). There was significant difference between pre-test and post-test scores as the ‘t’ value is higher than the tabulated value in the ‘p’ value at 0.05 level of significance.  Conclusion: These study findings indicated that, people need proper education on waste management.