This project focuses on protecting and improving the quality of the environment, protecting human health and ensuring the sustainable use of natural resources by investing in waste management. The main objective of the present project is to increase the capacity of separate collection of municipal waste generated in the village of Lehnice in an increase of 117 tons per year in order to protect the quality of the environment, the quality of life of the inhabitants of the village, to increase the efficiency of the municipality’s management and to meet legislative requirements under Act No.79/2015 Coll. on Waste and on Amendments to Certain Acts. The subject of the project is the construction of a shelter in an already existing collection yard, the purchase of movables to support separate collection and the purchase of equipment for mechanical treatment of selected sorted components of municipal waste in the village of Lehnice. Given the current state of waste infrastructure, our target will be in line with the specific objective of the Environment Operational Programme 1.1.1. Increasing the recovery rate of waste with a focus on preparing it for re-use and recycling and promoting waste prevention. The implementation of the project will, in addition to fulfilling the specific objective in the territory concerned, aim at eliminating illegal landfills, improving the quality of the environment, improving basic services for the population in the municipality concerned and meeting the requirements of the Union’s environmental acquis. The projects addressed meet environmental, technical, economic and social needs, and these activities in the municipality will ensure an increase in the rate of waste recovery with a focus on preparing them for re-use and recycling and promoting waste prevention in accordance with the Waste Act.