For many years Poland has been facing a serious problem of waste management and disposal, with the current system failing to reduce landfilled waste.

Adam Koz?owski explains how new legislation aims to address the situation and how it could drive the country's adoption of waste to energy technology.In the past Waste to Energy (WtE) development has been restricted in Poland. Municipalities had limited legal means for assuming direct responsibility for the collection and handover of municipal waste for WtE plants. As they did not own the municipal waste produced on their territory they had li...