Ecological and economic aspects of the waste management reform: the experience of the Rostov region

Abstract

The problems of the household garbage and industrial wastes utilization are currently central in the regions with a high concentration of population and production. This region in the South of Russia is the Rostov region. The industrial specialization of economy, intensive agriculture, the saturation of infrastructure facilities and high with a predominance of cities are the factors, causing the waste production and consumption large volumes formation in the Rostov region. Since 2018 the process of reforming the waste disposal system has been carried out in the Rostov region, as well as in other regions of Russia. Instead of landfills, where production and consumption wastes were simply stored and buried, the innovative technical and ecological chain, allowing the processing of garbage and recycling of waste, is being created in the region. The waste management reform involves the creation of 8 inter-municipal ecological waste-treatment complexes in the Rostov region, including solid household waste landfills, waste sorting plants, waste transfer stations and other infrastructure facilities for the waste management. At the same time, this reform faces a number of organizational, managerial, engineering, economic, environmental and socio-psychological problems. The essence and problems of the waste disposal system reform in the Rostov region, the reasons and possible ways of the decision the general assessment of efficiency of the developed scheme of utilization of waste a way of the solution of a problem of accumulation and removal of garbage in the region are considered in this article.