Korzyści i efekty zarządzania punktami selektywnego zbierania odpadów komunalnych w ramach gminnych systemów zarządzania odpadami komunalnymi
Benefits and Effects of Management of Selective Municipal Waste Collection Points within Municipal Waste Management Systems

Summary/Abstract: The article presents a case study of several Polish municipalities and one inter-municipal association with regard to the management of mandatory selective municipal waste collection points by these local government units under the Act on maintaining cleanliness and order in municipalities, better known in the European municipal economy as local recycling centres. The article is not aimed at comparing the effects between the surveyed communes, but finding an answer to the question whether these points are only an obligation or benefit to the communes. Which benefit: financial, environmental, social or educational. The first part of the article describes the potential benefits, while the second focuses on empirical data on the mass of waste and costs of its management compared to other costs of municipal waste management systems. The article lays foundations for further and broader research on this issue.

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