Government Decree No. HG248/2013 validating the Waste Management Strategy 2013-2027.

Waste Management Strategy 2013-2027 aims to define an indicative area of activity for the development of infrastructure and services necessary for proper waste management to protect the environment and public health. This Strategy establishes the necessary framework for the creation and implementation of integrated waste management system, socially effective, from economic and environmental points of view. Sustainable development in the field of waste management is based on its controlled management to ensure in short time limiting the environmental impact due to removal of waste, and in the medium and long term, ensuring its socially acceptable and economically feasible management.
Waste management is one of the national policy priorities for the prevention of environmental pollution, which requires solutions. Exacerbation of the problem of waste, in particular solid domestic waste is caused by the inadequate approach currently being taken at various stages of waste treatment. The strategic vision in the field of waste management is to develop by 2027, a comprehensive waste management system, cost-effective and capable of ensuring the protection of the environment and human health.
The hierarchy of the most effective waste management options is a simplified conceptual framework providing: (a) waste prevention is a higher priority in waste management hierarchy and consists in slowing down and reducing the growth rate of waste and hazardous properties of generated waste; (b) reuse and recycling, which relate to use waste as secondary raw materials, without additional processing (recycling) or with subsequent processing (re-processing); (c) restoration, which involves the extraction of a useful component (including energy) from the generated waste; recovery includes use of combustible waste fraction as an alternative fuel for production of electrical and thermal energy; and (d) disposal consists of storing in landfills such waste components that cannot be reused, recycled or recovered for the purpose of release into the environment.
Ministry of Agriculture, Regional Development and Environment is the competent authority charged with responsibility for the development and promotion of public policy, including legislative and regulatory bases in the field of waste management. The leading role in waste management at the local level is entrusted to local public authorities, and the results of waste collection and disposal largely depend on their capacity to organize this activity and the way in which economic agents and civil society are involved in the accumulation of financial resources.
The implementation of the general goals established in the Strategy will contribute to: (a) increasing the coverage of waste collection services for all waste streams; (b) reducing the amount of waste stored in landfills not meeting new requirements approved by law, harmonized with European Union directives, as well as cleaning of historically contaminated areas; (c) increasing the degree of collection and use of secondary raw materials by promoting waste recycling and reuse; (d) increasing the service life of solid waste landfills and equipping landfills with emission capture and leachate treatment systems, thereby limiting the impact of greenhouse gas emissions, persistent organic pollutants and leachate that is generated at these waste sites; (e) reducing the amount of untreated biodegradable household waste, stored on plots of land; and (f) development of new processing and re-processing facilities, as well as installations for waste disposal that meet international standards.