Principles of municipal waste management in Poland and selected regions of Europe

• Authors: Joanna Kulczycka , Zygmunt Kowalski
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

High level of production and consumption in member-countries of the European Union is connected with generating a considerable amount of waste. In individual EU member-countries various methods aiming at decreasing the amount of generated waste are implemented. The current situation in Poland, and the best practical solutions introduced in some European regions have been presented in the paper. These solutions were put in place, mainly to fulfill the EU or country's regulations. The priority of municipal waste management measures is to prevent and minimize its generation. Decisions on preventing waste generation should be made as early as at the stage of product designing and manufacturing. The basic principle of proper municipal waste management is to create a system of regional solutions, which includes all the elements of waste management and relates them to the local conditions.

Keywords

EN

municipal waste management; recycling; landfilling

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Polish Journal of Chemical Technology
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 10
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 28-33

Dates

published

1 - 1 - 2008

online

7 - 1 - 2009

Contributors

author

Joanna Kulczycka

• Mineral and Energy Economy Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Wybickiego 7, 31-261 Kraków, Poland

author

Zygmunt Kowalski

• Institute of Inorganic Chemistry and Technology, Cracow University of Technology, ul. Warszawska 24, 31-155 Kraków, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10026-008-0043-1