Highlights

• Another PLN 200 million will go to local governments for the elimination of illegal hazardous waste accumulation sites.
• These are additional funds – in 2025, 17,000 tonnes of hazardous waste were removed from 10 locations. PLN 200 million was allocated for the removal of these sites in 2025.
• The funds come from a special state budget reserve.
• An additional PLN 100 million for the removal of hazardous waste was allocated by the National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management.
• A total of PLN 0.5 billion has been earmarked for the removal of illegally accumulated hazardous waste at 33 locations throughout Poland.

We are allocating another PLN 200 million for the removal of illegally accumulated hazardous waste. We are continuing one of the most important social programmes – the programme for cleaning up and eliminating illegal waste accumulation sites. Last year, we cleaned up 17,000 tonnes of hazardous waste threatening the environment, potential sites of large-scale contamination. This is one of the promises made by the Coalition government on 15 October

– said Minister Paulina Hennig-Kloska during a conference on the removal of hazardous waste.

Local governments breathed a sigh of relief
This year, the funds will go to nine new locations and three that already received funds in 2025 and have begun the process of removing illegally accumulated hazardous waste:

• Sosnowiec city (2 locations)
• Kutno city municipality
• Gdańsk municipality
• Łaziska Górne municipality
• Szczekociny municipality 
• Koziegłowy municipality
• Piekary Śląskie municipality
• Sławków municipality
• and 3 locations (continuation from 2025):
• Sosnowiec municipality,
• Siemianowice Śląskie municipality,
• Mykanów municipality, Kokawa village.

In total, these local governments will receive PLN 200 million from the state budget reserve this year. 

Continuation of activities

We act; we don't just talk. This year, we are allocating another PLN 200 million from the state budget's special-purpose reserve. This is similar to last year, when PLN 200 million from the reserve was allocated to local governments. In addition, PLN 100 million was allocated for this purpose by the National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management

– said Deputy Minister Anita Sowińska.

Another PLN 200 million for the removal of illegally accumulated waste in 2026.

For 2025, PLN 200 million has been secured in the state budget for the liquidation of illegal waste accumulation sites. Thanks to cooperation with voivodes and Voivodship Inspectorates for Environmental Protection, the Ministry of Climate and Environment has created a ranking list for locations that have received funds from the state budget. Waste has been removed from 10 locations – seven completely, and in three the process will continue this year.

We are not slowing down. This year's budget includes another PLN 200 million for the removal of illegally accumulated hazardous waste. These funds will go to 12 locations in Poland. At the same time, we will speed up the signing of agreements from the list submitted for co-financing by the National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management (NFEP&WM) – these are another 14 locations that pose a threat to people and the environment

– said Minister Paulina Hennig-Kloska.

Thanks to the funds provided, over 17,000 tonnes of waste were removed in 2025. After completing the task of removing illegally accumulated waste, the entities that received support have the right to demand reimbursement of the costs incurred from the waste owner.