1. Waste diposal in Jaslo Castellanza Workshops 22-26 October 2007 Castellanza Workshops 22-26 October 2007

2. J A S L O Jaslo is a town in south east Poland. It’s area is 33.6 km 2 and it is inhabited by 40,000 people. It lies upon three rivers and is situated on altitude from 225 to 380 above the sea level.

3. Waste disposal in Jaslo is on a good level and it is constantly improved. Unfortunately the main way of disposal is placing it in the landfill. However, some of it is sorted out and then recycled.

6. Rubbish is collected directly from people’s houses. Sorted out recyclable rubbish is given or sold to various plants where it is recycled.

7. To prevent illegal waste disposal, especially containing hazardous waste, the city council has hired a company that collects hazardous waste, such as asbestos, to specially designated points.

8. Some citizens were showing moderate interest in recycling. Thus the council introduced more effective methods to encourage people to sort out the rubbish for example by lowering their rubbish collection fees if they participate in recycling schemes.

9. Nowadays Jaslo has been participating in the recycling programme, and therefore we have decreased the amount of rubbish landfilled. In consequence, we protect our forest and save some of the energy that would be used in production process.

10. 25 per cent of domestic waste is organic waste doming from our kitchens and gardens. It can be composted which would not only decrease the amount of waste but also produce a fertilizer of a very good quality.

11. It is necessary to take further action based on limiting the amount of unsorted rubbish that has to be stored on landfills.

12. As it has been mentioned, Jaslo has been involved in refuse sergregation scheme since 1993. NO!YES!

13. There is no universal method of neutralising household and industrial waste. Moreover there is no method of complete rubbish neutralisation. Methods based on neutralising unsegregated waste lead to production of new waste products, requiring another treatment. Analogically if we apply a single method of waste neutralisation, only part of waste is neutralised, due to its high diversity.