Problems of correct procedure of waste handling, their economic utilization and minimizing their harmful environmental effect belong to the most important issues of natural environment protection. Poland, which entered the socio-economic structures of the European Union in May 2004 must confront this problem through adjusting its waste management legislation including also the problems of municipal waste deposition. A failure to observe the EU provisions is connected with financial penalties. Therefore the work aims to present the most important elements of development of municipal waste management history from the viewpoint of waste deposition, discuss the most important aspects of municipal waste deposition and characterize the situation of municipal waste disposal in the malopolskie province. Only one municipal waste disposal technology, i.e. deposition has been presented in the paper because this particular technology poses the gravest hazards to the natural environment and moreover currently is has been the most popular in Poland. This form of waste disposal has been ascribed a great importance, especially because of the site selection. The development and current situation of legislation on municipal waste deposition were presented. The most important issues of waste deposition were addressed, and the situation of municipal waste disposal in the malopolskie province ...
The article addresses the most important issues of the mass service theory (queuing theory) useful for organization of municipal waste transfer stations. In modern waste management transfer stations (temporary waste deposition sites) are a most important issue, since they influence the way of waste transport to further distances and at lower costs. All elements composing the transfer station are interrelated by a technological process. The work aims highlight a potential utilization of queuing theory as a tool make more efficient the work at a transfer station. Examples of queues which happen at transfer stations were analyzed to illustrate the problem. Hypothetical data were used for computations. The article presents also the most important terms connected with transfer stations and an outline of queuing theory in its queuing theory in its aspect serviceable in the organization of work at municipal waste transfer stations. The input data assumed for the project, comprised mainly the waste quantity produced in the subsequent years of the transfer station operation (15-20 years), mean generated wastes (kg per person per day), the area serviced by the station (the number of inhabitants), mean rate of waste generation (tone per day) and also data pertaining to the current operation ...
