Making the municipal waste incinerating plant environment-friendly is the priority of solution of waste management problems (additional construction of Stages II and III of waste gases cleaning) with the objective to solve utilization and disposal of residues after the incineration process.

The lack of financial sources is a problem of the solution of old environmental burdens (landfills). The project documentation has been prepared for their redevelopment and reclamation and it is being gradually implemented in stages. In order to reduce the production of municipal waste, it is necessary to expand and improve separate collection of secondary raw materials from municipal waste in accordance with the amended Waste Act.

By the construction of collection centres for troublesome substances and hazardous wastes with the objective to eliminate them from municipal waste, will be achieved at the same time the reduced production of harmful substances from their incineration.

In the field of industrial waste, it is necessary to pay attention mainly to the finalization of environment-friendly landfills of industrial waste at U.S. Steel Košice, as well as to utilization of secondary raw materials from technological processes (utilization of steel-making dusts and sludge).

It is necessary to increase the awareness of inhabitants in order to expand general separation of waste in the City of Košice.