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-Main issue is the air pollution due to coal extraction, use in household heating and energy production
- Increase in deforestation during last 2 years: legislation allowed for larger trees to be cut and also controversial "protection" actions in UNESCO protected ancient forest of Białowieża,
- Failure to observe the new recycling and trash segregation legislation: garbage being sorted in households yet the garbage dump sites are not fully prepared to recieve sorted trash
- compulsory trash sorting in households
- free public transport when the air pollution surpasses the limits,
- no more free shopping bags
- public bikes available in major cities for negligible fee (25 cents per 1 hour)
- international earth day celebrated in Poland for more than 28 years now (public local area cleaning by pupils)
- EU funded workshops for young students increasing their environmental awareness
- tree planting and many more other actions spread around the country
- to improve air quality in south-western Poland (highly urbanized and industrialized region of Silezia)
- reduction of CO2 emission from fossil fuels burning (coal fueled power plants generate more than 90% of Polish energy)
- gradual shift of energy production profile of Poland (fossil fuels to renewables and non CO-2 emitting nuclear plants)
- increase the security measurements of chemical processing and pharmaceutical plants (emission of pollutants, in some regions higher than allowed limits)
- from top 10 cities in Europe that had worst air quality in 2011 6 of them were Polish
- 94% of energy (electrical and heating) produced in Poland comes from coal combustion
- in comparison to "old" EU countries Poland stays behind in terms of air quality and environment protection
- society is becoming more aware of environmental impact of individual activity
- EU regulations oblige Poland to increase its engagement in environment protection
- Poland tries to follow the example of western European country in terms of ecology