Ten years of the waste management in the Slovak Republic

Changes, which took place in 1993 to 1996, resulted in significant strengthening of waste management from the institutional point of view, from the point of view of conceptual and systemic approach to the organisation and management. For example, the state administration bodies for waste management and the specialised departments of the Slovak Environmental Inspection were built, the Slovak Republic as the member state of the Basel Convention participated in international co-operation, contacts with the EU have developed. The countrywide information system on waste has been implemented, managed by the Waste Management and Environmental Management Centre of the Slovak Environmental Agency. The total waste production in 1992 to 2000 had the decreasing trend. The most frequent method of waste disposal is landfilling. 52.9% (8.5 mill. t) of the total produced waste quantity in 2000 were reused, 24.1% (3,873,611 t) were deposited in landfill sites and 3.1% (579,556.5 t) were incinerated.