This paper presents the problem of management of industrial wastelands in the Upper Silesian Region (USR) in recent years and new ways of waste reclamation in industrial areas. The industrial character of USR is connected with hard coal mining, iron and steel metallurgy, power industry chemical industry, which include the central part of contemporary Silesian district, caused significant amount of industrial waste in the vicinity of industrial plants, often in surrounding buildings, cultivated fields and forests. The biggest areas in the Upper Silesian Region are connected with hard coal mining waste (waste rock), iron and steel metallurgy (metallurgical waste), power industry (dusts and slag), chemical industry (different hazardous waste), zinc and lead ore mining (waste rock) and heavy metal metallurgy (dangerous dusts and slag with lead, zinc and others). In 2000, hard coal industry in Poland produced about 37561, 4 thousand Mg of waste (51.1% mining waste) and 32 143, 0 thousands of them (85.6%) were used for leveling of terrain (43.4%), engineering works (27.2%) and hydraulic stowage in mining (3.4%).