Municipal Solid Waste Management in the Czech Republic and in Slovakia

IF 1.1 Q3 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
B. Meričková, J. Soukopová, M. Šumpíková, Milan Krapek
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Abstract Contracting waste management services is one of the most commonly used approaches to the delivery of this service and this topic is clearly in the focus of frequent academic research. The goal of this article is to examine trends in the area of solid waste collection and disposal on the municipal level for the Czech Republic and Slovakia in terms of developments over the past 20 years with a focus on the share of inter-municipal cooperation in the delivery of this service. In contrast to Western European countries, which are undergoing re-municipalization, the data obtained for Slovakia and the Czech Republic over 20 years show that the municipal solid waste management service is dominated by contracting, which has increased over the examined period. This fact is apparently a reflection of the high rate of fragmentation in municipal structures and the low willingness among municipalities to cooperate. The data obtained also indicate that using external suppliers seems to bring marginal savings that could certainly be substantially larger; potential increases in efficiency via contracting are unequivocally limited by the low quality of contract management. Regarding our core question, we found that the proportion of inter-municipal cooperation between service delivery modes did not significantly increase during the investigated period. The experts interviewed almost uniformly agreed on three critical limits related to the issue of inter-municipal cooperation in MSW management delivery – transaction costs of different types, non-existent regular comparisons of best solutions, and limited motivation to select optimal service delivery modes.
捷克共和国和斯洛伐克的城市固体废物管理
承包废物管理服务是提供这种服务的最常用方法之一,这一主题显然是频繁的学术研究的焦点。本文的目的是研究捷克共和国和斯洛伐克在城市一级固体废物收集和处置领域的趋势,从过去20年的发展来看,重点是城市间合作在提供这项服务方面所占的份额。与正在重新城市化的西欧国家不同,斯洛伐克和捷克共和国20年来获得的数据显示,城市固体废物管理服务主要是订约承办,这种情况在审查期间有所增加。这一事实显然反映了市政结构的高度分裂和市政当局合作的低意愿。所获得的数据还表明,使用外部供应商似乎能带来边际节省,而这种节省肯定会大大增加;合同管理的低质量明确限制了通过合同提高效率的潜力。关于我们的核心问题,我们发现在调查期间,服务提供模式之间的城市间合作比例并没有显著增加。接受采访的专家几乎一致同意与城市间在城市固体废物管理交付方面的合作有关的三个关键限制:不同类型的交易成本,不存在对最佳解决方案的定期比较,以及选择最佳服务交付模式的动机有限。
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