Polish Waste-to-Energy Projects and their Perspectives
The starting point of the paper was to characterise the current condition of the polish municpal waste management and to outline the most important challenges in this scope. the main part of the paper presents an overview and assessment of the current advancement of Polish construction projects of municpal waste thermal treatment facilities/waste-to-energy projects.
Overview and assessment concern both projects entered into the so-called indicative list already in the year 2006 with a still ongoing development process, as well as projects initiated in the recent years. The assessment includes the course of development of the oldest projects and points to significant reasons of implementation problems.
Dynamic design works included in the governmental Operational Programme Infrastructureand Environment (POIiŚ) 2007-2013, supported with EU funds, are underway in Poland since 2006. Those works aim at constructing modern municipal waste treatment plants of waste-to-energy (WtE) type. Many papers have been published on the development of those projects, e.g. [1] and [2]. The present paper is another contribution on the subject. It contains an assessment of the current advancement stage of the projects as of June 30, 2012 which is of great importance for fulfilling EU requirements in the field of municipal waste management by Poland.
Poland’s municipal waste management still deviates from the EU average, although in recent years systematic improvement can be observed. According to the Central Statistical Office GUS – Environment 2011 12.04 million tons of municipal waste were generated in Poland since 2010, amounting to approx. 315 kg/M per capita annually. According to EUROSTAT for the year 2010 [3] – approx. 252.1 million tons of municipal waste are generated annually in EU27 equalling to approx. 502 kg/M annually per capita in EU27.
[1] Pająk T.: Waste to Energy Plant for Polish Large Cities Polish Journal of Environmental Studies,Vol. 17, No. 3A, (2008). P. 448-454
[2] Pająk T.: Overview of the Polish Waste-to-Energy Projects and their Perspectives. Waste Management Volume 2. Waste management. Recycling. Composting. Fermentation. Mechanical-Biological treatment. Energy recovery from Waste. Sewage Sludge treatment. Karl. J. Thomé-Kozmiensky, Luciano Pelloni - Neuruppin. TK Verlag Karl. J. Thomé-Kozmiensky, 2011. ISBN978-3-935317-69-6. P. 155-162
[3] Environment in the EU27. Landfill still accounted for nearly 40 % of municipal waste treated in EU27 in 2010. Eurostat 12/48. 27 March 2012
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| Autor: | Prof. Ph. D., Eur. Ing. (Dr.-Ing. habil.) Tadeusz Pajak  | |
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