Waste management plans: Tools for sustainable development

Harmonizing economic and social aims with environmental protection is national environmental policy. The high-level goal of the policy in waste management is prevention, reduction, recovery and environmentally safe final treatment. The extensions of the Second National Environmental Policy are waste management plans, prepared and adopted on national, voivodship, poviat and commune level. The plans are a novelty in Polish law, for the first time the opportunity for sorting out waste management in Poland, a particularly municipal, has been created.