The fee for municipal waste management in Poland may be differentiated due to such conditions as, inter alia, the area of the dwelling or the number of residents. The problem analyzed in the paper is whether it also applies to the fee when choosing the method of its determination per household.

The aim of the article is an attempt to indicate the obligations of the investor in the procedure of legalization of lawlessness in construction and comparing them to the environmental protection regulations. The author analyzes the provisions of the construction law in the area of lawlessness in construction, focusing primarily on the changes in the procedure after the amendment of the law in 2021. He analyzes the requirements of the environmental protection provisions faced by the investor in the procedure of legalization of construction lawlessness, pointing to their high value for ensuring sustainable development.

One of the fundamental principles of environmental protection is the „polluter pays” directive, which is anchored in the provisions of Article 7 of the Act of 27 April 2001. Environmental Protection Law (later on referred to as „p.o.ś.”) – hereinafter (Dz.U. of 2020, item 1219 as amended). The legal means for carrying out this objective are fines imposed under Article 298 of the p.o.ś., for violation of the conditions for using the environment. The method of determining the number of penalties is set out in Articles 305 and 305a of the p.o.ś. However, the rules of proceeding with the imposition of fines are also set out in the Code of Administrative Procedure, Article 189f which defines when the imposition of fines should be waived. This solution is also applied to fines imposed based on the p.o.ś. Therefore, in practice, it is necessary to apply both solutions resulting from the Code of Administrative Procedure and the p.o.ś. Therefore, the article presents premises justifying the withdrawal from the imposition of a financial penalty for violation of the conditions for using the environment. In conclusion, it was pointed out that such dualism is not good and therefore the law in this area should be organized.

From January 1, 2021, the Regulation of the Minister of Climate of September 11, 2020 on detailed requirements for the storage of waste, specifying detailed requirements that must be met by waste storage places, applies. The aim of this study is to analyze the provisions on labeling hazardous waste from the perspective of the personal scope of addressees obliged to place labels and those exempt from this obligation. As a result of the exclusion of a significant group of operators from the labeling of hazardous waste, I consider that the objectives of this regulation cannot be achieved.

The practice of increasing the detail and size of project information cards is currently observed. However, there are no detailed considerations in the literature on what such a document should contain. The article analyzes what information should be included in the information sheet of the project. Attention was also drawn to the practice of requesting information that does not have to be included in this document, which sometimes occurs on the part of administrative bodies.

The problem of green washing, i.e., basically, making false or misleading claims about the impact of a given product or business enterprise on the environment, is increasingly acute. The present article constitutes an attempt to describe the actual and possible response of the law to the aforementioned problem.