Reduce Food Waste in Europe
  • Home
    • Contact
  • STREFOWA
    • STREFOWA Conferences >
      • conference on food waste prevention and management >
        • Conference venue
      • Let's make a change
    • Education award 2019
    • Project Award 2018
    • Blogger Award 2017
    • Roadshows
    • Go to STREFOWA
  • initiatives
  • Get active
    • network
    • join network
    • Sign Up for newsletter
    • Organize a Food Waste Hackathon >
      • Host a Food Waste Hackathon
      • What is a Food Waste Hackathon
      • STREFOWA Food Waste Hackathons >
        • Food Waste Hackathon Hungary
        • Food Waste Hackathon Poland
        • Food Waste Hackathon Vienna
        • Food Waste Hackathon Italy
        • Food Waste Hackathon Czech Republic
  • Materials
    • STREFOWA Handbook
    • Food Waste facts and tips
    • Training Materials >
      • training consumers
      • training retail
      • training food service
      • training primary production
    • Guidelines >
      • guideline consumer
      • guideline food service
      • guideline retail
      • guideline primary production
      • guideline waste management
  • Pilot actions
    • Environmental savings
    • Pilot actions to raise awareness >
      • PA 3 Raise awareness in Hungary
      • PA7 Food waste prevention in tourism and food preparation
      • PA 8 Food waste prevention in tourism and food preparation
      • PA 9 Food Waste Prevention in Viennese schools
      • PA 10 Reduce food waste in school canteens
      • Pilot activities with Primary Schools in Italy
      • PA 12 Food Waste Prevention at households
    • Pilot actions donations and re-use >
      • PA 1 ​Food Waste Prevention in Primary Production
      • PA 2 Karakter Ernte Reuse Surplus
      • PA 4 Food donation in Warsaw
      • PA 5 Increase donations as food waste prevention in the Czech Republic
      • Food donation from Hospitals to the territory
      • PA13 Food Waste Prevention in households
    • Pilot actions food waste separate collection >
      • PA 14 Separation of food waste from residual waste
      • PA15 Optimisation of separate food waste collection
  • Reports
    • Best Practices to prevent food waste
    • Food Waste in Central Europe >
      • Situation on Food Waste in Austria
      • Situation on Food Waste in Czech Republic
      • Situation on food waste in Poland
      • Situation on food waste in Italy
      • Situation on Food Waste in Hungary
  • Startseite
    • STREFOWA
    • Newsletteranmeldung
    • Über das Projekt
    • Kontakt und Presse
  • Initiativen
  • Pilotaktionen
    • Umweltbeitrag Pilotaktionen
    • Pilotaktionen zur Bewusstseinsbildung >
      • PA 8 Lebensmittelabfallvermeidung in der Tourismusbranche
      • PA 12 Vermeidung in Haushalten
      • PA 9 Bewusstseinsbildung in oesterreichischen schulen
      • Unterrichtsmaterialien
    • Pilotaktionen zur Weitergabe von Lebensmitteln >
      • PA 1 ​Vermeidung von Lebensmittelabfall in der Primärproduktion
      • PA 2 Karakter Ernte
    • Pilotaktionen zur Vebesserung der Abfallverwertung >
      • PA 14 Nutzung der organischen Bestandteile im Restmüll für die Biogasproduktion
  • Fakten und Daten
    • Best Practices zur Vermeidung von Lebensmittelabfällen
    • Lebensmittelverschwendung in Zentraleuropa
    • Lebensmittelverschwendung im Haushalt
  • Domů
    • Food Waste Hackathon Praha
  • Iniciativy
  • Fakta a čísla
    • Osvedcene postupy
    • Situace ve Střední Evropě
  • Home
    • Il Progetto >
      • STREFOWA
  • Buone pratiche
  • Azioni pilota
    • Donazione di cibo dall’ospedale al territorio
    • PA7 Prevenzione delle spreco alimentare nella preparazione del cibo in ambito turistico
    • Attività Pilota con le Scuole primarie del territorio
    • PA13 Prevenzione dello spreco alimentare nelle case private
    • PA15 Ottimizzazione della raccolta differenziata negli hotel di Rimini
  • STREFOWA Food Waste Hackathons
  • Kezdőlap
    • STREFOWA
    • #reducefoodwaste education dij 2019
    • #reducefoodwaste Projekt Dij 2018
    • Pilotní aktivity >
      • Environmentální přínosy
      • Zvyšte dárcovství pro potravinové banky a díky tomu snižte potravinový odpad v České republice >
        • Environmentální přínosy pilotní akce 5
      • PA 10 PŘEDCHÁZENÍ PLÝTVÁNÍ NA ŠKOLÁCH
  • kezdeményezések
  • STREFOWA kézikönyv
  • Food Waste Hackathon
  • Pilotok
    • Második magyar pilot –2018 március és április, Miskolc
    • környezetre gyakorolt hatásai
  • Tények
    • legjobb megoldások
    • Élelmiszer-hulladék
  • STRONA GŁÓWNA
    • STREFOWA
  • Działania pilotażowe
    • Zwiększenie darowizn żywności w ramach zapobiegania marnowaniu żywności w Polsce
    • Działanie Pilotażowe we Wrocławiu
  • Inicjatywy
  • Fakty o niemarnowaniu żywności
    • Najlepsze praktyki
    • Odpady żywności

Situation on food waste in Poland

National strategies on food waste prevention 

Description of national strategies specifically addressing food waste:
National Waste Management Plan 2022.
Description: The transposition of the EU- directives into national law (e.g. Framework Directive, Landfill Directive, Packaging Directive), especially the European issues of waste management lay the framework for the National Waste Management Plan (KPGO 2014) as well as various regional plans. Poland’s waste management could be described as a system of regional solutions. Each region of Poland (voivodship) will be provided with a Regional Waste Management Plan, which is responsive to the assumptions of the KPGO 2014 and the strategic documents of a region (Swiss Business Hub, 2013).

The plan includes procedures to reduce waste, to prepare them for re-use, recycling, other recovery operations and for waste disposal. The National Waste Management Plan for 2022 is in line with the strategic documents adopted at EU and national level.
The programme applies to municipal waste, including food waste and other biodegradable waste and includes:
  • Analysis of the current status of waste management
  • Targets of waste management
  • Lines of the activities of waste prevention
  • Waste and the sharping of waste management system
  • How to monitoring and evaluation of national implementation waste management plan
  • Schedule and method of determination of contractors
  • Waste Management Plan – funding implementation
  • Information about strategic evaluation of environmental impacts
  • Assessment of funds used the scope of prevention waste
  • Summary of the national plan of waste management

The National Programme for the prevention of waste, 2014.
Description: The programme establishes the waste prevention objectives, defines the existing prevention and determine appropriate specific qualitative or quantitative reference levels for the measures adopted to prevent the formation of waste, in order to supervise and evaluation progress of these measures. Plan applies to biodegradable waste including food waste and contains:

  • Diagnosis of state
  • Utility examples of measures indicated in Annex IV
  • Existing methods of prevention Waste
  • Good Practice for prevention priority waste
  • Good Practice waste prevention
  • Objectives strategic
  • Actions to strategic goals
  • Monitoring the Implementation
  • Impact assessment of the proposed solutions
  • Consultation project
  • Diagnosis condition of specific groups waste
  • Plans, programmes, strategies for prevention waste. 

Market-based instruments 

Amendment of Art. 43 of October 2013 of Act of 11th March 2011 on value added tax (tax on commodity and services) J. of L. of 2011 No. 177, item 1054, with later amendments. Description: As an effect of this amendment the donation of food by producers and distributors is exempt from VAT (value added tax). Previously only donation made by producers was exempt from VAT. This new regulation should help to prevent food waste generation. 

Regulations and regulatory instruments

Legislation with (potential) implications on food waste generation
Dz.U. [Journal of Laws] No. 171, item. 1225. The Law of 25 August 2006 on food safety and nutrition.
Description: This law lay the basic legal act regulating concerns of food safety and nutrition and form the framework which regulates in a comprehensive manner the conditions necessary to ensure food safety from “farm to fork”. This law refers to the European “Hygiene package” laying down rules for the hygiene of foodstuffs and the rules of conduct food sector regulatory authorities. This law is amended by Dz.U. [Journal of Laws] 2010 No. 21, item. 105. of 8 January 2010.
Legislation addressing food waste management
  • Dz.U. [Journal of Laws] from 2013 item 21 Law on Waste of 14 December 2012 r.
    Description: The Act specifies measures to protect the environment, human life and health to prevent and reduce the negative impact on the environment and human health resulting from the generation and management of waste, and limiting the overall impact of resource use and improving the efficiency of such use.

  • Dz.U. [Journal of Laws] No. 75, item. 527, as amended Regulation of the Minister of Environment of 21 April 2006. on the list of types of waste, that the waste holder may transfer to individuals or agencies who are not entrepreneurs, and acceptable methods of their recovery.

Description: The Regulation sets out:
  • a list of the types of waste that a person or entity other than entrepreneurs can undergo recovery for their own needs, and acceptable methods of recovery;
  • conditions of storage of waste intended to be used for their own needs and limits the amount that these entities can take and store in a year, or the manner of determining those quantities for certain types of waste
  • the list of types of waste that individuals or entities other than entrepreneurs can undergo recovery for their own needs, and acceptable methods of recovery, conditions of storage of certain waste for use and permissible quantities that these operators can take and store in a year, or the manner of determining these amounts for certain types of waste set out in Annex to Regulation.
  • This document applies biodegradable kitchen waste. 

Legislation actively addressing food waste reduction 

In Poland, there is no legislation specifically addressing food waste reduction. 

Legislation addressing food (re-)distribution 

At the time of compiling this report, there is no legislation specifically addressing food (re-) distribution in Poland. However, the Polish parliament is currently drafting a law which aims to prevent local retailers from trashing unsold food which remains fit for consumption. Under this new law, the owners of retail outlets fitted with a total surface of more than 250 square meters will be required to donate such food to charity organizations, with intentional discards punishable by financial penalties. The senate is hoping to pass the law at the beginning of the year .

Local legal conditions for selected urban areas: 

Resolution of the Capital City Warsaw dated 9 July 2015 on the adoption of the Rules of maintaining cleanliness and order in City Warsaw Resolution No. XIV / 292/2015 from 9-07 2015.

Warsaw
  • the types and amount of waste received from the owner of the property;
  • the frequency of collection of municipal waste from the property owner;
  • of the Services by the entities receiving the waste Municipal Waste Management in the field of municipal waste;
  • of the Services by the Points of selective collection of waste Municipal.
  • It applies to receive selectively collected bio-waste from kitchens, catering and bio-waste from markets and gastronomy.
  • It contains information about the methods and rules of collected bio-waste from kitchens, catering and bio-waste from markets and gastronomy.
​
Environmental sustainability programme for the City Warsaw for 2009-2012 with the prospect of 2016.
Description: The aim of the programme is to achieve balanced and sustainable development of the city of Warsaw through the preservation essential qualities of the natural environment, improve the environment, improve spatial order, development and environmental protection infrastructure. The priorities of the programme are to improve the quality of surface water, achieving the required standards of air quality, communication noise nuisance limitation, establishment of a coherent natural system of the city, along with the protection of valuable natural elements, creation of an integrated waste management system, increase the ecological consciousness of inhabitants of Warsaw.

This sustainability programme has implications on food waste management as it achieved a high degree of reduction of biodegradable waste (including food waste) that is landfilled without prior biological or thermal treatment.
Environmental sustainability programme for the City Warsaw for 2017-2020 with the prospect of 2023.
Description: The aim of the programme is: sustainable management of the environment, providing the domestic economy secure and competitive energy supply, improvement of the environment. The programme covers the following areas: air quality and climate protection, noise pollution, electromagnetic fields, water management (including the quality of surface water and groundwater and waste water management), land (including soil and geological resources), management of municipal and industrial waste (including food waste from households), natural resources, major accident hazards, environmental awareness of citizens, social participation, environmental education, adaptation to climate change. 


Wroclaw
The programme providing residents compost (segreguj.wroc.pl programme)
The programme providing residents having home gardens and educational institutions located throughout the city, composters for composting green waste and kitchen waste biodegradable. The aim of the programme is to educate residents on proper waste composting, promoting composting waste for their own needs, increasing the amount of biodegradable waste to be recovered, thus reducing the amount going to landfill of municipal waste generated in Wroclaw. ​​

Voluntary agreements 

In Poland there are no voluntary agreements directly related to food waste. 

Find initatives to reducefoodwaste in Poland
Find information on food waste in Central Europe
Picture
Picture
Picture
Cofinanziert von:
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Financed by:
Picture

HOME

STREFOWA

CONTACT

IMPRINT

STREFOWA © 2016-2019
  • Home
    • Contact
  • STREFOWA
    • STREFOWA Conferences >
      • conference on food waste prevention and management >
        • Conference venue
      • Let's make a change
    • Education award 2019
    • Project Award 2018
    • Blogger Award 2017
    • Roadshows
    • Go to STREFOWA
  • initiatives
  • Get active
    • network
    • join network
    • Sign Up for newsletter
    • Organize a Food Waste Hackathon >
      • Host a Food Waste Hackathon
      • What is a Food Waste Hackathon
      • STREFOWA Food Waste Hackathons >
        • Food Waste Hackathon Hungary
        • Food Waste Hackathon Poland
        • Food Waste Hackathon Vienna
        • Food Waste Hackathon Italy
        • Food Waste Hackathon Czech Republic
  • Materials
    • STREFOWA Handbook
    • Food Waste facts and tips
    • Training Materials >
      • training consumers
      • training retail
      • training food service
      • training primary production
    • Guidelines >
      • guideline consumer
      • guideline food service
      • guideline retail
      • guideline primary production
      • guideline waste management
  • Pilot actions
    • Environmental savings
    • Pilot actions to raise awareness >
      • PA 3 Raise awareness in Hungary
      • PA7 Food waste prevention in tourism and food preparation
      • PA 8 Food waste prevention in tourism and food preparation
      • PA 9 Food Waste Prevention in Viennese schools
      • PA 10 Reduce food waste in school canteens
      • Pilot activities with Primary Schools in Italy
      • PA 12 Food Waste Prevention at households
    • Pilot actions donations and re-use >
      • PA 1 ​Food Waste Prevention in Primary Production
      • PA 2 Karakter Ernte Reuse Surplus
      • PA 4 Food donation in Warsaw
      • PA 5 Increase donations as food waste prevention in the Czech Republic
      • Food donation from Hospitals to the territory
      • PA13 Food Waste Prevention in households
    • Pilot actions food waste separate collection >
      • PA 14 Separation of food waste from residual waste
      • PA15 Optimisation of separate food waste collection
  • Reports
    • Best Practices to prevent food waste
    • Food Waste in Central Europe >
      • Situation on Food Waste in Austria
      • Situation on Food Waste in Czech Republic
      • Situation on food waste in Poland
      • Situation on food waste in Italy
      • Situation on Food Waste in Hungary
  • Startseite
    • STREFOWA
    • Newsletteranmeldung
    • Über das Projekt
    • Kontakt und Presse
  • Initiativen
  • Pilotaktionen
    • Umweltbeitrag Pilotaktionen
    • Pilotaktionen zur Bewusstseinsbildung >
      • PA 8 Lebensmittelabfallvermeidung in der Tourismusbranche
      • PA 12 Vermeidung in Haushalten
      • PA 9 Bewusstseinsbildung in oesterreichischen schulen
      • Unterrichtsmaterialien
    • Pilotaktionen zur Weitergabe von Lebensmitteln >
      • PA 1 ​Vermeidung von Lebensmittelabfall in der Primärproduktion
      • PA 2 Karakter Ernte
    • Pilotaktionen zur Vebesserung der Abfallverwertung >
      • PA 14 Nutzung der organischen Bestandteile im Restmüll für die Biogasproduktion
  • Fakten und Daten
    • Best Practices zur Vermeidung von Lebensmittelabfällen
    • Lebensmittelverschwendung in Zentraleuropa
    • Lebensmittelverschwendung im Haushalt
  • Domů
    • Food Waste Hackathon Praha
  • Iniciativy
  • Fakta a čísla
    • Osvedcene postupy
    • Situace ve Střední Evropě
  • Home
    • Il Progetto >
      • STREFOWA
  • Buone pratiche
  • Azioni pilota
    • Donazione di cibo dall’ospedale al territorio
    • PA7 Prevenzione delle spreco alimentare nella preparazione del cibo in ambito turistico
    • Attività Pilota con le Scuole primarie del territorio
    • PA13 Prevenzione dello spreco alimentare nelle case private
    • PA15 Ottimizzazione della raccolta differenziata negli hotel di Rimini
  • STREFOWA Food Waste Hackathons
  • Kezdőlap
    • STREFOWA
    • #reducefoodwaste education dij 2019
    • #reducefoodwaste Projekt Dij 2018
    • Pilotní aktivity >
      • Environmentální přínosy
      • Zvyšte dárcovství pro potravinové banky a díky tomu snižte potravinový odpad v České republice >
        • Environmentální přínosy pilotní akce 5
      • PA 10 PŘEDCHÁZENÍ PLÝTVÁNÍ NA ŠKOLÁCH
  • kezdeményezések
  • STREFOWA kézikönyv
  • Food Waste Hackathon
  • Pilotok
    • Második magyar pilot –2018 március és április, Miskolc
    • környezetre gyakorolt hatásai
  • Tények
    • legjobb megoldások
    • Élelmiszer-hulladék
  • STRONA GŁÓWNA
    • STREFOWA
  • Działania pilotażowe
    • Zwiększenie darowizn żywności w ramach zapobiegania marnowaniu żywności w Polsce
    • Działanie Pilotażowe we Wrocławiu
  • Inicjatywy
  • Fakty o niemarnowaniu żywności
    • Najlepsze praktyki
    • Odpady żywności