National Conference “Waste management, Challenges and Opportunities” has been intended as a platform to share achievements and challenges of the Albanian national, regional and local stakeholders, after a 3 year period of legal and strategic framework implementation. It has been organized in three sessions, each of which was followed by questions and discussions. And at the end conclusions and recommendations were made The first session was aimed at setting the Conference frame from the hosts; Albanian Government with the support of Switzerland and EU.