The aim of waste management is to prevent generation of waste that might constitute a threat to the environment, as well as to create and implement measures that prevent adverse impact of waste on human health and the environment. In case certain waste is designated as hazardous waste, it is necessary to determine the category of such waste immediately at its inception, or to declassify it as non-hazardous. In order to reduce the quantity of waste, it is necessary that mixed municipal waste be separated. Units of local self-government have the duty to provide citizens with public areas, recycling yards and other adequate places where they can dispose and sort waste. Waste that needs to be separated from mixed municipal waste includes paper, metal, glass, plastics, textiles, bio-waste, as well as bulky municipal waste, etc. In order to ensure high quality waste management at the level of the unit of local self-government, municipal waste management plan is adopted with the aim of improving the quality of waste management and reducing the quantity of municipal waste, so as to avoid any threats to human health and the environment. The purpose of this plan is to reduce the growing quantity of generated municipal waste, promote sorting of collected waste and recycling, as well as to reduce the share of disposed biodegradable waste.