This measure is easy to misread. “Fixed assets” means capital spending on things intended to last—such as treatment facilities, pollution-control equipment and other environmental infrastructure—not salaries, maintenance or other routine costs. The jump therefore points to an unusually large wave of recorded project investment, not necessarily a permanent increase in annual environmental services.
The break with the recent pattern is stark. From 2021 through 2024, annual outlays stayed between PLN 696.7 million and PLN 776.9 million. The 2025 total was more than three times the 1999–2025 annual average of PLN 601.8 million, and 278.7% above the level recorded in 1999.
Why that matters depends on what was built. Capital investment can expand the capacity to treat wastewater and waste or control emissions, but this aggregate does not identify the projects, who financed them or the environmental results. A spending record is not proof that pollution fell.
The supplied data also do not explain the specific cause of the one-year jump. Because the figures are reported in PLN without an inflation adjustment, changing prices contribute to the longer-run rise as well. Until project-level detail is available, the result is best read as a striking increase in environmental capital spending—not a verdict on Pomorskie's environmental performance.