  The paper aims to mapping the potential vulnerable areas to illegal dumping
of household waste from rural areas in the extra- Carpathian region of Neamt
County. These areas are ordinary in the proximity of built-up areas and buffers
areas of 1 km were delimited for every locality. Based on various map layers in
vector formats (land use, rivers, built-up areas, roads etc) an assessment
method is performed to highlight the potential areas vulnerable to illegal
dumping inside these buffer areas at local scale. The results are correlated to
field observations and current situation of waste management systems. The maps
outline local disparities due to various geographical conditions of county.
This approach is a necessary tool in EIA studies particularly for rural waste
management systems at local and regional scale which are less studied in
current literature than urban areas.
