Increasing the efficiency of using resources as a factor of environmental business activity

Abstract

In modern conditions of gradual depletion of natural resources, natural capital is becoming the main limiting factor of production systems. The dominant trend of exceeding the rate of use of natural resources over the growth rate of production leads to exclusive attention to the need to increase the productivity of natural resources in solving environmental problems and problems of rational use of mineral resources. The resource potential created in Ukraine, its uniqueness, scale of development, relevant infrastructure objectively determine in the long run the preservation of a significant share of the mineral complex in social production. The inefficiency of the technical and economic mechanism of subsoil use leads to large losses of minerals, which makes it objectively necessary to form conceptually new approaches to the rational use of natural resources. Strategic resources are a prerequisite for increasing not only economic but also environmental efficiency: the production of industrial waste is several times lower than from extracted natural raw materials, which creates the preconditions for increasing the profitability of the enterprise. Rational use of natural resources allows to increase volumes production per unit of resource, reduce costs marketable products, expand the market niche of the enterprise and optimize the size of penalties for environmental pollution. It is also crucial solving environmental problems: reducing the area of land that are taken away under dumps; reduction of the volume of stored waste and dustiness of the territory, etc. In view of this, it can be argued that strategic resources produce opportunities for synergy of environmental and economic results through rational use of natural resources. Development and implementation of management decisions aimed at ensuring a balance of resources enterprises is a combined process, which is based on use of various management methods and tools appropriate to the current conditions and development objectives of the entity.