The issue of waste management has continued to attract global attention and several efforts have been made to find solutions to the problem of improper waste disposal mostly in the urban areas in the developing countries of the world. This study exploits the benefits of using social entrepreneurship in waste management and creation of wealth using primary school pupils in the central senatorial district of Ogun State. A descriptive survey research design was used for the study and 500 primary school pupils using volunteer sampling techniques. A self-constructed questionnaire titled “Students Perception on Social Entrepreneurship and Waste Management Questionnaire” (SPSEWMQ) (r =.82) was used as main instrument for the study. Data were analysed using descriptive statistics. The findings showed that social entrepreneurship helps pupils to gain skills of proper handling of waste, waste collection and disposal among others, also pupils benefited from the social entrepreneurship activities they embarked on in the area of helping them to develop skills of willingness to get things done, determination to achieve success, employment generation and wealth creation and social entrepreneurship activities did lead to gaining waste sorting skills by the pupils. It was recommended that social entrepreneurship skills should be developed in the pupils so as to participate as productive members of the society and that pupils should be encouraged to manage waste and turn it to wealth.