There will be more and more municipal waste, which is why not only the popularization and simplification of selective waste collection, but also finding an answer to the question of what to do with it, is becoming an increasingly pressing challenge. The participants of the debate "Smart waste management" were discussing this issue.
We are sorting and … nothing
Our current system has a lot of deficiencies and gaps. From the point of view of the residents, waste is becoming more and more expensive because the fees for its disposal are increasing. - From the point of view of the owners of waste, i.e. municipalities, they have increasingly higher negative value - said Robert Pawłowski, mayor of Złotoryja.
- Even if we sort all waste into appropriate fractions, to put it simply, we have nowhere to sell it - echoed Jarosław Ferenc, mayor of Radomsko.
As emphasized by local government officials, it is difficult to find companies on the market that would be willing to pay a cost-appropriate price, even for plastic, bottles and clothing. As mayor Pawłowski described, the most valuable raw material that can be recovered from waste is, of course, metal, but it turns out that very few aluminum cans go to the municipal "waste resources".
