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  • Challenges of municipal waste management in Hungary
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    Aims, tasks and priorities of medium term development plans of national waste management were
    defined in the National Waste Management Plan, which was made for the period of 2003–2008 in
    Hungary. Supporting of the European Union is indispensable for carrying out of plan. The most
    important areas are related to the developing projects of municipal solid waste treatment (increasing
    the capacity of landfills, accomplishment of the infrastructure of selective waste collection, building
    of new composting plants). The national environmental policy does not focus sufficiently on the
    prevention of waste production. Due to the high expenses of investment and operation the energetic
    recovery and the incineration of municipal solid waste do not compete with the deposition. We
    inclined to think that the waste management of Hungary will be deposition-orientated until 2015. The
    main problems to the next years will be the lack of reprocessing industry of plastic and glass
    packaging waste. The high number of to-be-recultivated landfills and the attainability of necessary
    financial sources are also serious problems. There are many questions. What is the future in national
    waste management? How can we reduce the quantity of dumped waste? What are challenges of
    national waste management on the short and long term?