Poland may not reach 50% recycling by 2020 - NIK

There is a threat that Poland will not reach the 50-percent level of recycling of the EU-designated regulation in 2020 - the Supreme Audit Office NIK informed in a report. According to NIK, it is necessary to intensify actions at all levels, starting from the gminas, through regions to the Ministry of the Environment. If Poland fails to reach the 50-percent level of recycling, it may face high fines. The Chamber suggests that the situation could be improved by the obligatory inclusion of municipal waste collected at "secondary raw materials" purchase points in the calculation of recycling levels. The audit showed that none of the controlled municipalities included waste collected at the "secondary raw materials" collection centers in the statistics. NIK also stated that in half of the controlled gminas, the reporting data, including data on the level of recycling, was unreliable.