Baranyai, G (2007). Management of civil solid waste in the South Transdanubian Region. Modern Geográfia, 2(4), 1–15.
The major deficiency of the Hungarian environmental protection appears in the field of waste management. As a consequence of several improvements, significant developments and initiatives have taken place in the waste management of the examined region, nevertheless, there is still work to do in their realization, as well as in the formation of further developmental conceptions. Waste management was brought into the focus of environmental protection because of the damaging effect of accumulating, mistreated waste both on the environment and the conditions of existence of the living world and human beings respectively. Furthermore, the issue of waste gains growing economic importance. On the one hand, the placing and management of dangerous waste causes an increasingly complex problem and considerable expenses alike, while the vast majority of waste is valuable, reusable secondary raw material. Thus the rising amount of waste presumes the intensification of the society’s loss of both material and energy. Namely, once the problem of recycling got solved, waste is regarded as raw or auxiliary materia.