Author: Jakub Nalewa

  • How to file a BDO report

    ByJakub Nalewa

    The biggest mistake entrepreneurs make is to treat the BDO report as a one-size-fits-all form for all businesses. In practice, you first need to determine what type of report applies to your business and only then proceed to submit it to the system. For some companies it will be a report on waste generated and waste management, for others it will be a report on products, packaging and the management of waste arising from them, and some entities may be subject to both obligations at the same time.

  • BDO publicity report who must submit it

    ByJakub Nalewa

    If you run a shop or wholesaler and offer plastic shopping bags covered by the recycling fee to your customers, you are in principle obliged to register with BDO and to submit an annual report on products, packaging and the management of waste arising from them. Official BDO material makes it clear that this obligation applies to businesses operating retail or wholesale units where plastic shopping bags covered by the recycling levy are offered. This is a very important distinction as, in practice, it is not just any plastic shopping bag in a shop, but the bags covered by the recycling levy legislation.

  • BDO takeaway packaging

    ByJakub Nalewa

    The biggest mistake businesses make is to treat takeaway packaging purely as a sales item, rather than as a source of separate environmental responsibilities. In practice, it is the coffee cups, salad containers, lunch boxes and other disposable packaging handed out to the customer that very often triggers obligations in BDO. It is not just the waste from the premises per se, but the obligations associated with single-use plastic products that are packaging.

  • MPD number in BDO what it is and what it is used for

    ByJakub Nalewa

    An MPD number in BDO is a place of business number and MPD itself means a place of business. BDO's official knowledge base explains that an MPD is most often a plant site or other place of business at a single address associated with the generation of non-municipal waste, collection or treatment of waste by a given waste holder.

  • BDO Entity Register

    ByJakub Nalewa

    BDO entity register - how to check a company and what does the entry really say? The BDO Entity Register is one of the most important tools in the practice of an entrepreneur who...

  • BDO notification of waste collection

    ByJakub Nalewa

    If you are looking for information on how to make a waste receipt declaration in BDO, the most important answer is that there is no separate form called „waste receipt declaration” in the BDO system. In practice, it is a matter of issuing the correct waste transfer document. For most waste, this will be a Waste Transfer Note (KPO), and when collecting municipal waste from property owners, a Municipal Waste Transfer Note (MTC) is used.

  • BDO and hairdressing salon

    ByJakub Nalewa

    The most important information for the hairdressing salon owner is that the mere fact of providing hairdressing services does not automatically imply an obligation to register with BDO. Official BDO materials indicate that operators of small service activities, including hairdressing, are exempt from registration in the BDO register as generators of municipal waste. In practice, this means that if a salon only generates municipal waste and operates under a standard collection system for such waste, this fact alone does not yet create an obligation to register.

  • BDO proposal

    ByJakub Nalewa

    The phrase „BDO application template completed” is very understandable from an entrepreneur's perspective. When someone encounters the BDO register for the first time, he or she naturally looks for an example: what a correctly completed form looks like, what to enter in the various fields and how to avoid mistakes that will prolong the whole procedure. The problem is that the BDO does not have a one-size-fits-all paper template to download and fill in manually. Official sources make it clear that the application for registration, updating and deletion is only submitted online, directly in the BDO system.