Summary:

Amount of generated municipal wastes depends on many factors, witch the
most important are: life standard, population's rate and goods' consumption scale
and intensity.
The kind of produced wastes depends on the area where the wastes are
generated, population denisity, buldings' types, objects of public utility, trade outpost
magnitude and intensity of industry and services.
In this paper there was verified dependence between municipal waste
production and one of the social-economic factor which is structure of economic
activity (by Polish Classification of Activity - PKD).
The researches were conducted in communes of Malopolska Region. The
average amounts of produced wastes in different business communes's type and
significance of differences among average were defined in the analysis.
There was indicated that the biggest waste production (per capita) have
communes, where the dominant business activities are financed (or insurance),
transport or tourism. The least wastes are generating with construction, energetic
and agriculture as the main economic activity.