The general objective of this project similar to any investment project in waste management is to improve the living conditions of the population and environmental management in the local and regional context. The intervention logic is determined by the need for Member States to comply with EU environmental standards as laid down in national and European waste legislation. Improving the living conditions of the population and environmental management can only be achieved by improving waste management, by increasing the efficiency of the integrated waste management system (SMID). Increasing the efficiency of the existing SMID is proposed to be achieved by complementing the system with infrastructures dedicated to the collection and management of municipal waste both in urban and rural areas. The importance of these infrastructures lies in the creation of dedicated areas and a distinct institutional framework for the collection of municipal waste on the fractions/types of waste that until now have been the subject of only occasional campaigns, in accordance with the provisions of the contracts for the delegation by concession of the sanitation service, in force for the existing collection areas in Bihor County. Through the infrastructures that will be carried out through the proposed project – waste collection centres by voluntary contribution, municipal waste will be collected separately in 12 fractions. Such collection was not previously carried out either in urban areas, where the amount of waste collected is significant, or in rural areas where waste collection was deficient due to differences in collected fractions compared to the urban environment, the number of contracts concluded with individuals and the mentality of the population. The proposed project, through the creation of 16 waste collection centers through voluntary contribution, made available to citizens free of charge, will directly contribute to the objectives of the operational programme and to the EU directives, specific to the waste field, and will ensure the increase of the efficiency of the waste recovery / recycling process, as well as the reduction of the environmental pollution generated by the illegal abandonment of waste. The implementation of the project will lead to the optimization of the waste collection system as a result of the construction of waste collection points, and implicitly to the increase of the waste recycling degree. Increasing the amount of waste recycling by default and the recycling rate has a significant social impact by: - minimizing and streamlining the use of primary resources, especially non-renewable ones - treatment and disposal of waste as close as possible to the source of generation - minimizing the negative effects of waste production and management on the population - waste recovery in order to recycle the non-renewable raw material - energy recovery (through incineration) for waste with well