A technogenic load on the environmental components during the formation and accumulation of the waste in the North-Western Black Sea regions

Angelina V Chugai,Tamerlan A Safranov

doi:10.32347/2411-4049.2020.1.5-17

Abstract

The amount of the production and consumption waste generated and accumulated in a certain territory (in the region) can be considered as one of the indicators of a technogenic load on the environmental components. The processes of formation and accumulation of various wastes pose a threat to a state of all environmental components. The formation and, especially, the accumulation of production and consumption waste inevitably contaminate the soil cover.The problem of inefficient waste management is typical for the regions of Ukraine, and therefore the purpose of the work is to assess a level of a technogenic load on the environmental components by the indicators of the formation and accumulation of production waste and the consumption in the regions of the Northwest Black Sea. To evaluate and analyze a level of a technogenic load on the environment based on the principle of calculating a technogenic load module it is proposed to determine a module of a technogenic load on the geological environment, ie the most vulnerable component of the environment.It is established that the greatest load in the territory of the North-Western Black Sea is in the Mykolaiv region (due to industrial waste). The amount of the generated and accumulated waste exceeds the corresponding figures in the Odesa and Kherson regions. More than 95% are class IV hazardous waste. In almost all regions of the Northwest Black Sea, there has been a tendency of increasing a load, primarily due to the increased accumulation of the waste.It is suggested to determine a module of a technogenic load on the geological environment according to the waste generated and accumulated in the region.

Highlights

The processes of forming and accumulating the various wastes pose a threat to a state of all environmental components
The purpose of this work is to assess a level of a technogenic load on the geological environment (GE) by the indicators of forming and accumulating the production and consumption waste for the regions of the North-Western Black Sea
To evaluate and analyze a level of a technogenic load on the geological environment, the principle of calculating a technogenic load module, which is defined as a sum of weight units of all types of wastes of the industrial, agricultural and municipal objects for a time interval – 1 year, applied to the area of the administrative district or region within which these objects are located and it is measured in thousand tons/km2 per year [14]

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The processes of forming and accumulating the various wastes pose a threat to a state of all environmental components. In the Environmental Encyclopedia [2], the GE is a multicomponent dynamic complex organized natural system (rocks, soils, sediments, groundwater, natural gases), which is characterized by the presence of geophysical and geochemical fields and interacts with the elements of landscape, atmosphere, surface waters and is affected by technogenic activities. According to this definition fertile soils are included into the GE; only natural gases and non-hydrocarbon fluids are included into the GE componenets. The GE “interacts with the elements of the landscape, the atmosphere”, but a ground part of the atmosphere is a part of the landscape

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