Sustainable Using (Exploiting) of Earth Resources

Planet Earth is our common home in which we live, farm, and in which in 1987 we decided, at the initiative of the UN, to organize our common future. Human needs for natural resources are measured by the size of their ecological footprint. The size of the ecological footprint is influenced by partial footprints, the largest of which is the carbon footprint. The size of this footprint is significantly influenced by waste produced by society. Plastic waste is the most dangerous. The paper presents an analysis of the volume of plastic municipal waste in the years 2006-2018 in Poland and Europe, as well as the situation in the processing of this waste.