Zagospodarowanie odpadów komunalnych - działania organów administracji publicznej

The audit of providing appropriate management of municipal waste by public administration bodies was carried out on NIK’s own initiative, in relation to the introduction of a new system for municipal waste treatment. The system is based on selective collection of waste from property owners, and then on their management in regional systems for municipal waste processing. The audit was additionally justified with press information according to which, for instance, not all regions of municipal waste management had been equipped with appropriate systems. Also, in some regional waste management plans, the status of a regional system was often granted to systems that did not meet the legal requirements or had too low capacity, and in many municipalities irregularities existed as for delivering waste to the regional municipal waste systems which, consequently, hampered their functioning. What is more, municipalities did not provide sufficient supervision of the companies that collected, processed and neutralised municipal waste, as a result of which the amount of municipal waste transported to garbage dumps has increased.