Municipal waste management in context of sustainable urban development

Municipal waste management is an element of environmental order marking which is one of the areas of sustainable development. This article draws attention to the problem of municipal waste management in the context of sustainable urban development. The purpose of the article is a dynamics analysis in terms of municipal waste management characteristics in urban areas. Selected Polish voivodships and cities are examined across a set of variables comprised of the following measures: collected mixed municipal waste, collected mixed municipal waste from trade, small business, collected mixed municipal waste from municipal services, collected mixed municipal waste from households, mixed municipal waste from households in selected health resorts and number and area of controlled landfill sites in operation. The analysis is based on data from the years 2004 and 2012. (C) 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.