Economic and Ecological Aspects of Municipal Waste Management

Abstract

Abstract The Act of 14 December 2012. Waste sets out measures to pro-tect the environment, human life and health, to prevent and re-duce the negative impact on the environment and human health resulting from the production and management of waste and limiting the overall impact of resource use and improving the ef-ficiency of such use. In this context, this study attempts to deter-mine the model method of preventing environmental pollution by harmful substances eluted from the municipal waste. This paper presents the research target of which were commercial landfill Sobuczynie, which was analysed by looking at contempo-rary legal requirements specifically set out in the Regulation of the Minister of the Environment regarding the location, construction and operation of landfills and the scope, duration and frequency, as well as the manner and conditions under which monitoring of landfills and illegal landfill in White and impact of uncontrolled spread of pollution on the environment within the “landfill”.