Abstract
In the European Union, basic strategy results from the need to provide intelligent, sustainable, and inclusive growth, along with respect to social and economic impacts of waste treatment. The paper focuses on municipal waste and its separation. Generally, within global waste management initiatives, the main goal is to minimize the negative effects of waste on the environment, as well as to increase and optimize the sources’ efficiency in the waste economy. Research on municipal waste development and its separation was done in individual regions of Slovakia to find if socially weaker regions have worse waste treatment. The results were compared according to the waste development per inhabitant and per household, as well as through rate indexes, which are connected to relationships between waste, social, and economic indexes. The results confirmed research results from other countries that show that the volume of municipal waste is increasing due to increased living standards of inhabitants. However, on the other hand, waste separation rates also increased—mainly based on the legislative support.
Highlights
Nowadays, issues surrounding the living environment, and its protection, present often-discussed topics
This trend is shown in the analysis presented in this paper at the level of self-governing regions (SGRs) of Slovakia
Despite the growing volume of municipal waste, a positive development was recorded in waste recycling, analyzing the development of local analytical indexes of municipal waste treatment in the context of social and economic indexes in individual regions of Slovakia
Summary
Issues surrounding the living environment, and its protection, present often-discussed topics. Based on the above-mentioned, the paper is focused on (1) the evaluation of waste creation and treatment at the level of individual counties in the Slovak Republic and (2) the identification of factors affecting the situation This goal was determined due to the backsliding of Slovakia behind a number of EU countries in the area of waste economy, mainly due to the low level of recycling and a high level of waste storage. Given the present state of the situation, we hypothesized that Slovakia would probably not meet goals determined by the EU in the waste economy area In this regard, it is necessary to determine the situation, at the national level, and at the level of individual self-governing regions and municipalities. At these “lower” levels, it is more likely to positively influence the responsible attitude of society towards effective waste treatment
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