• Subject of the issue: What are the problems of the Marshal's Offices in the field of BDO
    Entrepreneurs, as well as the Marshal's Offices entrusted with the operation of the BDO system, face the imperfection of this system on a daily basis. The system still needs to be refined in many aspects. What kind?
  • Find out about the provisions on extended producer responsibility
    The draft act amending the act on the management of packaging and packaging waste and certain other acts provides for the introduction of the long-promised extended producer responsibility (ROP) system. The regulations will apply to entities introducing packaging (i.e. making packaging or packaging products available on the Polish market for the first time).
  • The level of municipal waste recycling under the new rules
    The draft ordinance of the Minister of Climate and Environment on the method of calculating the levels of preparation for reuse and recycling of municipal waste was submitted for subsequent arrangements. What is introduced by the new regulation?
  • When we deal with a significant modification of the installation
    Are you planning to change the integrated permit, but you do not know whether it concerns a significant modification of the installation or whether the change does not increase the negative impact on the environment? Be sure to read this article!
  • The store that charges the deposit and the entry in the BDO
    Pursuant to Art. 53 sec. 1 of the Act on Batteries and Accumulators of April 24, 2009, the retailer of lead-acid car batteries or lead-acid car batteries is obliged to accept used lead-acid car batteries and used lead-acid car batteries from the end user.
  • Wastewater treatment plant and minimization of energy consumption
    Proper functioning of a wastewater treatment plant requires the supply of a large amount of electricity, which is necessary both for the conduct of technological processes and for the transport of wastewater in the entire technological system. The wastewater treatment plant operates continuously and electrically powered devices such as pumps, motors, blowers and many more run 24 hours a day.  
  • Decision on the permissible noise level - does it apply to you
    Decision on the permissible noise level, pursuant to Art. 115a of the Environmental Protection Law (hereinafter) is issued in the event of exceeding the permissible noise levels outside the plant, specified in the regulation on permissible noise levels in the environment. The relevant ordinance in this matter is the ordinance of the Minister of the Environment of 14 June 2007 on permissible noise levels in the environment (Journal of Laws of 2014, item 112).
  • Bubble envelopes and material packaging
    Question: Is the so-called can bubble envelopes be classified as multi-material packaging?
  • Under which code to classify ferrous metals
    Question: Reading your publication "Environmental Protection News" No. 90, July 2021, my attention was drawn to the topic of waste classification. Namely, it is referred to in the code 17 04 05. Should our plant classify ferrous waste in the code 16 01 17?
  • Change of the integrated permit - what fee
    Question: We are in the process of changing the integrated permit in order to adapt to the BAT conclusions. Our changes in the permit do not concern the extension of the type of activity. In your article "How to obtain an integrated permit-practical tips" included in the number 190 in the section stamp duty there is a provision that we should pay PLN 10 for such changes. On what legal basis is such a fee based?
  • Legal changes
    • Vehicle dismantling station - what kind of records
      Question: I run a vehicle disassembly station and therefore I have a question whether I should keep a waste record sheet or a record sheet of end-of-life vehicles? Or maybe both?

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