Resumen
Waste management (WM) operations include a broad variety of processes that aim at removing waste from industrial and private facilities. The waste is treated in different ways in waste management sites, which engage in recycling, landfilling and incinerating. The paper examines the effects of the organization of the WM site and its internal work procedures on its productivity and efficiency, measured by the quantity of processed waste and recycled material. The improvement of waste processing is essential from the environmental standpoint, but has also operational and economic aspects that are important for the proper operation of WM sites.