Andrzej Bartoszkiewicz has been involved in municipal waste management for 25 years. His work was recognized by the Chapter of the Wokulski Foundation. In 2011, he was honored with the main 2011 Positivist of the Year award in the Ecology and Sustainable Development category.
Contact with Andrzej Bartoszkiewicz: e-mail: eko_ab@wp.pl, telephone: 601 77 34 32.
Andrzej Bartoszkiewicz:
Once we understand the subject well, everything will become clear. The EU deadlines are approaching, and we really have to start segregating waste, and all of this costs money.
The increases compared with people’s wages present a bleak picture. Many people will pay more for waste than for electricity.
The subject of waste is thankless and has been neglected.
In Poland, waste is segregated into fractions that cannot be sold. We have to pay extra to get rid of each fraction.
We are not sufficiently engaged in the problem of segregation. Putting up a nice building for segregation is not enough.
To lower the rate, biodegradable waste would have to be separated from the rest at the source.
For the mafia, waste is more valuable than drugs. It can be transported across the border without any problems.
The solution is to introduce punitive fees for packaging that is not recyclable.
Waste management should be organized as a network.
In Poland, innovation will encounter difficulties.
Why does a given municipality not announce a competition and ask who can do it more cheaply?
Our guest is the author of the EKO AB waste segregation system, in which up to 80% of municipal waste can be processed directly, while approximately 15% can be sent for thermal conversion. His system is fully adapted to Polish conditions. The municipal waste management specialist believes that sooner or later “we will drown” (Poland and Europe) in the segregation of waste into fractions—or, in reality, in low-quality segregation. China and other countries, by vetoing low-grade segregated goods, have only accelerated this process.