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An intensive population growth, progressing social and economic development processes and growing urbanization of rapidly developing countries significantly translate into an increase in the amount of generated waste. At present, approx. 12 million tons of waste are produced in Poland. It should be expected that this amount will grow together with civilization progress. The amount of waste generated per person per year in Poland is 330 kg, as compared with approx. 550 kg in Germany. If these values are reached, approx. 20 million tons of waste will be produced in Poland. This makes it necessary to make rational decisions in the area of waste management in urban agglomerations. For this reason, in recent years, a growing interest has been observed in issues connected with the selection of appropriate planning strategies for waste management processes. Waste management plans assume, amongst other things, a reduction in the amount of waste intended for neutralization, encouraging recycling and creation of preferences to increase the share of recovery processes and recycling, in particular. One of the global targets involves the preparation of appropriate waste recycling strategies, which will increase its effectiveness by improved separation at the source, collection and recycling of priority waste streams. Poland's environmental policy assumes the organization of a municipal waste pre-selection, sorting and recovery system to assure that no more 50% of household waste reaches landfills. One of the most important elements of waste management system is a subsystem of planning and execution of waste collection process. Issues related to this process (determination of the areas of operation, planning vehicle routes, factors affecting the process, etc.) are widely discussed in the literature. The main goal of this article is to present method for assessing the process of planning and execution of municipal waste collection. The developed method will allow the assessment of the process of waste collection which takes into account the impact of external factors and decisions taken during the planning of the service areas. The developed method will be verified based on data from real waste management system.
Keywords: waste management, collection of waste© This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.