AGENDA

Thematic scope

Waste management

Current challenges in waste management. Regulation and achievement of objectives. Positive examples and effective organisational and technological solutions. Innovations and efforts of local governments. Extended producer liability and deposit return scheme. Pricing, costs, community involvement, information and education.

Thermal waste processing – for or against?

Thermal utilisation of different communal waste fractions in Europe and Poland today. Required and actual recycling levels. To warehouse or to incinerate? The environmental impact of thermal waste processing installations: facts and myths. Alternative fuels as a substitute for coal in heat generation? Incinerators and the EU taxonomy and climate policy. Incinerators in the ETS system? Investment costs. Location problems. Urban incinerators: existing, under construction, planned – do we have enough or do we need more? The position of local governments, central administration, residents. Let the market decide?

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