Lakipadada Regional General Hospital is one of the health service institutions located
in Tana Toraja Regency. Medical activities carried out at the Lakipadada Regional General
Hospital will certainly produce waste that can damage the environment if management of the
waste produced is not carried out. Waste produced by hospitals must be managed in
accordance with applicable legal provisions, as an effort to prevent environmental pollution.
Therefore, the author is interested in studying the Legal Aspects of Waste Management of the
Lakipadada Tana Toraja Regional Public House as an Effort to Prevent Pollution in the
Environment of Tana Toraja Regency. This study aims to be able to find out how the
implementation of waste management at the Lakipadada Tana Toraja Regional General
Hospital, and find out the obstacles that occur in the waste management process and provide
solutions to the obstacles experienced by the Lakipadada Tana Toraja Regional General
Hospital in carrying out waste management as an effort to prevent pollution. The results of this
study show that the waste management of the Lakipadada Regional General Hospital is in
accordance with applicable legal provisions but in its implementation it is still not optimal, so
the solution that can be provided is that hospitals need to develop all aspects related to the
management process so that pollution prevention is more optimal and runs well