Decision on adopting the Waste Management Plan of the Republic of Croatia for the period 2023-2028.

This Decision, on the basis of the national Law on waste management, here proclaims the adoption of the Waste Management Plan of the Republic of Croatia for the period from the year 2023 until the year 2028. Full text of this Plan is attached to this Decision.
The goals set by the this Plan are aimed at: separating economic growth from the increase in the amount of generated waste; preservation of natural resources; reducing the total mass of waste that is disposed in landfills; reducing emissions of pollutants into the environment; reducing the risk to human health and the environment; reducing the content of hazardous substances in materials and products; the goal of the United Nations on sustainable development to prevent and significantly reduce all types of marine pollution.
Specific goals and priority categories of waste were primarily selected based on: shares of individual categories of waste in the total amount of waste generated in the previous planning period; benefits from preventing the creation of a certain category of waste for the environment, society and the economy; the potential to avoid that a certain product becomes waste; existing goals, measures and activities that are ongoing and will continue to be implemented in this planning period. The specific objectives are: Preventing the generation of municipal waste; Preventing the creation of biowaste; Preventing the generation of electrical and electronic waste; Preventing the creation of waste paper and cardboard; Preventing the creation of plastic waste; Preventing the creation of construction waste; Preventing the creation of waste textiles and footwear; Prevention of marine litter.
The EU action plan for the circular economy, "Closing the loop - the EU action plan for the circular economy" from 2015 and the "Action plan for a cleaner and more competitive Europe" from 2020, have achieved the prerequisites for an accelerated transition to a circular economy whose is the goal of preserving the value of resources and products in the economy as long as possible, with the least possible generation of waste. The circular economy action plan aims to strengthen: preventing the generation of waste with a special emphasis on the prevention of the generation of food waste and marine waste; extended producer responsibility; encouraging recycling and reuse; gradual reduction of waste disposal. The result of the action plan is the adoption of four new waste directives, known as the "waste package".