Published: 2021-06-24

A Limit to Cross-Border Waste Shipment: An International Legal Perspective on the Polish Legislation

Katarzyna Cichos
Zeszyty Prawnicze
Section: Artykuły
https://doi.org/10.21697/zp.2021.21.2.12

Abstract

In recent years radical changes have ensued in the global practice of bringing in new legal provisions to regulate cross-border waste shipment and management. This is the outcome of new regulations prohibiting the import of waste adopted by China and other Asian countries, as well as of the Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals of 25 September 2015, and the concept of sustainable development as such. At the same time, in Poland we have been observing an escalation in the number of landfill fires and new illegal landfills. This article analyses the actual and legal situation in Poland, and examines the amendments made in 2018 and 2019 to the Polish law on waste management in the context of global trends. It focuses on the circumstances which have impacted directly on the Polish amendments, as well as on the new legislation intended to resolve the abuses in waste management, and attempts to answer the question whether the new measures have proved effective, especially in the context of global trends in the management and cross-border shipment of waste. The article examines the actual and legal situation in Poland and in the world, indicating the areas that need to be improved in Poland’s waste management to ensure greater safety.

Keywords:

international law; the waste trade; Agenda 2030; sustainable waste management.

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Cichos, K. (2021). A Limit to Cross-Border Waste Shipment: An International Legal Perspective on the Polish Legislation. Zeszyty Prawnicze, 21(2), 257–281. https://doi.org/10.21697/zp.2021.21.2.12

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