The Effectiveness of Municipal Waste Management in Polish Cities
The Effectiveness of Municipal Waste Management in Polish Cities

Summary/Abstract: Objectives: To seek for the optimum economic model for public utility services in the sector of municipal wastemanagement; to present the results of studies regarding the efficiency of companies in the sector of managementof municipal waste and the systems that such companies function within.Research Design & Methods: Multi-criterion rankings with the use of synthetic variable, the structure of which has beenbased on zeroed unitarisation (method of zeroed unitarisation – MZU). Owing to general financial data, technical andoperational data, as well as output data, it was possible to determine rankings of effectiveness for companies in the systemof municipal waste management and communes. What is more, a correlation diagram was created – the dependencybetween the aggregated effectiveness of companies and the aggregated effectiveness of waste management in communes.Findings: Communes which entrust municipal companies with management of an integrated system for municipal wastemanagement or/and its individual chains feature more properties of operating, economic, and financial effectivenesswithin the scope of management of municipal waste.Implications / Recommendations: It is demonstrated that communes which entrust municipal companies with managementof an integrated system for municipal waste management – or/and its individual chains – feature more propertiesof operating, economic, and financial effectiveness within the scope of the management of municipal waste.Contribution / Value Added: Further extended research into the organisation and management of the municipal wastemanagement system.Article classification: The article presents an original and innovative analysis of the municipal waste management sectorwith the use of the developed research method of aggregation and unit efficiency ranking. The purpose is to continuethe extended research on the organisation and management of the municipal waste management system.Keywords: public utility services, municipal waste companies, economic effectiveness, taxonomic methodologyJEL classification: L300

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