The biomedical waste are the waste arising during the process of diagnosis, therapy and immunization of the human beings or animals. A subpart of the biomedical waste comprises of the dental wastes. These dental healthcare generates a number of biomedical wastes, including the materials such as scrap amalgam, photochemical waste (developer and fixer), lead foil from traditional X-ray packets, blood-soaked materials, human tissue, and disinfectants, which are challenging to the environment. So, handling this waste generated from the dental procedure and from the dental office is called dental waste management. Although the dentist are dedicated holistically for the welfare of their patient’s and to the community but they lack behind in maintaining environmental sustainability. The Environmental sustainability is capacity to improve the quality of human life while living within the carrying capacity of the earth's supporting ecosystems. This review explores how a sustainable environment can be achieved by managing different dental waste in the clinical setting. Many studies reviewed pointed out that four key hindrance’s are - individual, educational, institutional, infrastructural and to endorse this initiatives for environmental sustainability in clinical dental setting by dental professionals. The dental professionals who embrace environmental sustainability should take steps against the factors which restrict Res Militaris, vol.13, n°1, Winter Spring 2023 3589 against the environmental effect for their dental practices which hold up the health of the population in the communities that they are serving and the welfare of the posterity.