Considerations regarding the essence of the functioning of material and non-material flows in the logistics chain are always characterized by the researcher’s subjective perspective, the place (point) from which they conduct observations, the accuracy of research tools, and their own experience. New trends in logistics and new areas of responsibility for logisticians are undoubtedly a challenge in science and practice.
The dispute over the area of operation, definitions, and pointing to development trends evolutionarily leads to the adoption and implementation of logistics rules, and following them – global logistics standards. Fragmentary examples of the application of standardization, e.g., containerization as the standardization of transport packaging or the introduction of barcodes, EPC, and RFID, have forced order in the sphere of logistics flow in the global economy.
In this context, the thesis seems correct that the introduction of a global, uniform currency for everyone within a specific time horizon would, with a high degree of probability, lead to the ordering of the financial flow, and thus also other logistics flows, by assigning an adequate, global value added. A factor organizing the logistics chain in the environmental area is undoubtedly green logistics – eco-logistics. As A. Korzeniowski notes, eco-logistics is the implementation of optimal solutions in the field of collection, storage, removal, and directing to utilization or disposal of various types of waste in a way that is not burdensome to the environment and society. Significant reasons for the emergence of this direction include: the need to recover raw materials and materials, the development of packaging and recycling technologies, the implementation of sustainable development principles into practice, and the need to reduce the global mass of waste. The main goal of the article is to identify the legal and organizational conditions for the functioning of the eco-logistics flow in the area of a local government unit. Hence, the research tasks arise. The subject of the research was the rural municipality of Szczecinek.
Legal aspects of eco-logistics in rural municipalities
Waste constitutes one of the most serious threats to the natural environment, especially in the case of improper storage, creating a potential threat to human health and the environment – water, air, soil. The changes that have taken place in the Polish economy in the recent period (transition to a market economy, the process of adapting to the requirements set by the European Union) have also forced changes in waste management. In Poland, at the turn of 2001-2002, a whole package of regulations was introduced, taking into account the general and specific requirements of the EU. Basic regulations concerning waste management are contained in the Act on Waste of April 27, 2001 (Journal of Laws No. 62, item 628, as amended).
In more general matters, covering other elements of the environment in addition to waste, the provisions of the Waste Act refer to the Act of April 27, 2001, Environmental Protection Law. The issues of waste and its management in rural areas are regulated by three categories of regulations. The duties of local governments and property owners regarding the maintenance of cleanliness and order, as well as the conditions for granting permits to entities providing services in this area (defined by the Act on Maintaining Cleanliness and Order in Municipalities). (…)
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Source: Logistyka Magazine 5/2012
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