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The objective of the publication is to research the facts, problems and find the ways to improve the functions of public administration in the management of municipal waste in Ukraine. The object of the research is the regulation and practice of exercising this function of public administration in Ukraine and the EU Member States.
For successful conduction of the research, the authors have used general and special methods of scientific cognition such as: formal and logical, comparative and legal, statistical methods, modeling and forecasting methods.
The results of the research have demonstrated the differences in approaches to the management of municipal waste in Ukraine and the EU countries. It has been found out that municipal waste management in EU countries is built around the concept of a closed-loop economy. The main directions for improving municipal waste management in Ukraine have been named. The authors have defined the list of amendments and alterations to the legislation of Ukraine on waste in order to bring this function of the national public administration to the European analogues.