Zadania jednostek samorządu terytorialnego w zakresie gospodarki (gospodarowania) odpadami komunalnymi i odpadami medycznymi o właściwościach zakaźnych w związku z COVID-19

The article aims at presenting the tasks of local government units in the field of municipal waste management and medical waste with infectious properties in connection with COVID-19. The article pres- ents solutions related to the prevention, counteracting and combating COVID-19, other infectious diseases and crisis situations caused by them adopted by the Act of 2 March 2020 as an example of extraordi- nary regulation, which definitely enters into various spheres of activity of public authorities. One of these areas of imperious interference is the management of municipal waste, which belongs to the municipali- ty’s own tasks.