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The article is an attempt of classification of the basic duties of municipalities to achieve the overall task of waste management. Amendments to the Act to maintain cleanliness and order in the municipalities of July 2011, introduced a revolutionary change in municipal waste management system. The most significant (new) elements of these regulations are the acquisition by the municipality (under the law) of the power of municipal waste facilities and providing municipalities with the instruments making possible to direct waste to specific installations for further processing. Municipalities must create an organizational and technical system providing the possibility of proper waste management, which involves the implementation of a number of specific tasks carried out by various legal instruments, in particular the acts of local law, organizational activities, etc.