National Waste Management Plan 2021-2027.

The Government's goal is to gradually transition to a circular economy and for the Hungarian waste management sector to become an exemplary model in Europe. The aim of the document is to introduce measures that promote the decoupling of resource use from needs-based sustainable development, reduce material use and waste, contribute to more efficient resource management, support the life cycle of products and promote the circular economy. The National Waste Management Plan 2021-27 sets out action lines for circular economic purposes and includes a waste prevention plan. In the triple bottom line of economic growth, environmental protection and social equity, the most effective contribution to sustainable development in the field of waste management can be made by preventing waste generation, replacing hazardous substances used in the production of products, and using material-saving and low-waste technologies, which also reduce waste management needs and costs. By harnessing the material and energy potential of waste and the need to recover it, waste management can become part of the global material and product life cycle, a key element of integrated product and production policy and planning, sustainable consumption and production. The document points out that one important means of achieving sustainable consumption and production is to change attitudes. Conscious purchasing, changing corporate practices and national regulations can be tools to curb food waste. Food safety must also be properly adapted to ensure that food that is safe for human consumption and not objectionable from the point of view of food safety is no longer destroyed.
Topics and relevant issues covered in this text are including the following: operating model of the domestic waste management system; development of the waste management system; transformation of the waste management system; models and actors of the new waste management system; statistical data of the waste management system; basic principles related to the transport of waste across national borders; restrictions regarding the import of non-hazardous waste for the purpose of disposal; restrictions regarding the import of secondary fuel; restrictions on the import of sewage sludge; urban waste; analysis of the current situation, achievements, shortcomings; industrial and other economic non-hazardous waste; agricultural and food industry non-hazardous waste; construction and demolition waste; hazardous waste; PCB and PCT-containing waste; waste oil; battery waste; waste from electrical and electronic equipment; waste from scrapped vehicles; waste generated in healthcare institutions, pharmaceutical waste; waste generated from plant protection products and their packaging materials; asbestos waste; biodegradable waste; packaging and paper waste; plastic, metal, wood and glass waste; energy utilizers and incinerators; landfills; waste utilization works; waste management operating within the framework of public waste management services infrastructure; and waste management public service.