Informacyjne uwarunkowania gospodarki odpadami komunalnymi w gminie. Studium przypadku
Informational determinants of municipal waste management in the commune – a case study

Summary/Abstract: Since July 2013 the waste management system in Poland has been functioning under neweconomic and political conditions. Its functioning is determined by the rate of waste fee paid byresidents and information on different elements of the integrated system, which has to be created ineach commune. The aim of this paper is an attempt to assess the informational barriers (especially interms of technical-economic and financial data) affecting municipal waste management.The thesis of this research is recognition of information as the most basic factor of creatingwaste management according to rules of circular economy. The specificity of technological, organizational,market and administrative processes in waste management, the amount of subjectsand chains (e.g. from a household to users of energy from waste incineration) cause that there aremany informational limitations and informational asymmetry. The concept of the paper involvesthe following: a description of municipal waste management in the informational aspect, usage ofinformation from accounting to measure financial and economic indexes, specificity of collectingthe necessary information as well as creating the worksheet with information on municipal wastemanagement in a commune and a municipal company. The added value of this paper is usage ofexisting reports concerning waste management and financial reports to create an integrated informationalpacket (worksheet) for a commune and a company, as well as pointing out the possibilities ofapplication of such a packet for assessment of efficiency and effectivity of undertaken activities. Thepaper is of conceptual-methodological nature and it fits in regional aspects of informational societydevelopment and digital economy.

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