IMPLEMENTATION OF A NEW INTEGRATED MUNICIPAL WASTE SYSTEM IN CONSTANTA COUNTY

EU waste policy has evolved over the last 30 years through a series of environmental action plans and a framework of legislation that aims to reduce negative environmental and health impacts and create an energy and resource-efficient economy. The EU’s Sixth Environment Action Programme (2002- 2012) identified waste prevention and management as one of four top priorities. In this paper we will present the implementation of a new integrated municipal waste system in Constanta county. An important feature of the Constanta county, with implications for integrated waste management is represented by the high degree of urbanization: 70% of the county population lives in urban areas, of which over 70% in towns located in the Black Sea area. The overall objective of the system of waste Constanta is developing an integrated, sustainable waste management, by improving waste management based on adequate infrastructure, reducing the number of contaminated sites in the county, mainly aimed at respecting the acquis communautaire of environment and having the effect to grow living environmental and standards in Constanta County.