<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Subject and purpose of work: The purpose of this work is to present the problem of municipal waste management, and its use for the production of electric and thermal energy. Materials and methods: The information used is derived from the CSO publication for 2015 in the scope of the data on municipal waste and electric energy per province. To establish the rankings of provinces, the method of zero unitarisation was applied, whose task is to bring various variables to the state of comparability with different titres and orders of magnitudes; and then the results derived from the two rankings were compared. Results: The rankings of provinces with respect to the state of waste management and obtaining electrical energy in Poland in 2015 were presented. These rankings are characterized by a significant degree of similarity. Conclusions: Regional differentiation in individual Polish provinces in 2015 is relatively moderate.</p></abstract>

Subject and purpose of work: The purpose of this work is to present the problem of municipal waste management, and its use for the production of electric and thermal energy. Materials and methods: The information used is derived from the CSO publication for 2015 in the scope of the data on municipal waste and electric energy per province. To establish the rankings of provinces, the method of zero unitarisation was applied, whose task is to bring various variables to the state of comparability with different titres and orders of magnitudes; and then the results derived from the two rankings were compared. Results: The rankings of provinces with respect to the state of waste management and obtaining electrical energy in Poland in 2015 were presented. These rankings are characterized by a significant degree of similarity. Conclusions: Regional differentiation in individual Polish provinces in 2015 is relatively moderate.

Obtaining Electric and Thermal Energy from Processed Municipal Waste and the State of Waste Management in Poland in 2015

Economic and Regional Studies / Studia Ekonomiczne i Regionalne

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Subject and purpose of work: The purpose of this work is to present the problem of municipal waste management, and its use for the production of electric and...

Obtaining Electric and Thermal Energy from Processed Municipal Waste and the State of Waste Management in Poland in 2015

Published Online: Sep 25, 2018

Page range: 34 - 44

Received: Nov 01, 2018

Accepted: Jan 01, 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ers-2018-0013

Keywords
electrical energy, municipal waste, waste management, ranking, zero unitarisation method

© 2018 Patrycja Ozga, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Obtaining Electric and Thermal Energy from Processed Municipal Waste and the State of Waste Management in Poland in 2015

Published Online: Sep 25, 2018

Page range: 34 - 44

Received: Nov 01, 2018

Accepted: Jan 01, 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ers-2018-0013

Keywordselectrical energy, municipal waste, waste management, ranking, zero unitarisation method

© 2018 Patrycja Ozga, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
electrical energy, municipal waste, waste management, ranking, zero unitarisation method