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Good to know Selective collection of construction and demolition waste after 1 January 2025

Selective collection of construction and demolition waste after 1 January 2025

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​​​​​​​​by Michał Majnusz

27 March 2024


The new law that enters into force on 1 January 2025 will require construction and waste management companies to sort construction and demolition waste into minimum 6 main groups:

  1. wood
  2. metals 
  3. glass 
  4. plastic 
  5. gypsum 
  6. mineral waste, including concrete, bricks, tiles and ceramics, and stones. 

What are the new obligations?


The mandatory selective collection of waste means that next year you will no longer be allowed to put construction and demolition waste into one container. Such waste will have to be put separately into dedicated containers, bags or bins. 

The new obligation will certainly pose a challenge to construction companies or construction waste collection companies. They will have to:

  • provide additional containers for waste;
  • plan additional work on sorting the construction and demolition waste;
  • control the correct sorting of waste. 

Compliance with this obligation will certainly increase costs for construction companies, especially those implementing large projects which generate hundreds or even thousands cubic metres of construction or demolition waste. Thew new obligations are also likely to increase the cost of construction work for future developers.

Consequences


Businesses that fail to follow the new law may be fined from one thousand up to one million zloty.

Exceptions


The following have been excluded from the selective collection of construction and demolition waste:

  • household construction waste;
  • waste accepted at civic amenity sites (abbreviated in Polish as PSZOK);
  • construction and demolition waste which does not need to be recorded by virtue of the Climate Minister’s regulation on waste type and quantities.​​

Act now to fulfil the new obligations, especially to change the waste collection methods and teach workers to sort construction and demolition waste. Contact​ us – Rödl & Partner has been advising businesses on environmental obligations for years.

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Michał Majnusz

Attorney at law (Poland)

+48 882 786 777

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