Planning organization of facilities for the municipal solid waste processing for use in the structure of small cities of Russia

Abstract

The range of problems, related to the environmentally dangerous accumulation of solid domestic waste (SDW) in Russian cities and settlements and the lack of effective ways of handling them, has been analyzed. The importance of this problem is substantiated for the difficult location conditions of geographically remote small towns and settlements of Russia, where the rational solution for solid waste collection conditions, transportation and processing still has not been found. The planning organization concept for small cities with the inclusion in their structure a modern system of objects for processing solid waste is proposed. A new methodological approach to the formation of functionally completed and environmentally friendly small residential agglomerations in the Russian regions is substantiated. The proposed methodology is focused on the use of advanced native technologies, using domestic waste as a renewable source of fuel for the production of electric and thermal energy. The new methodological approach is based on the complete exclusion of domestic waste landfill disposal in small towns in Russia and provides an effective scheme for waste collecting, advance preparation and container delivery for it complex processing with extensive use of the local railway transport network. The results of the study allow us to identify new directions in the field of small towns design and development in Russia, in relation to the requirements of a sustainable ecological environment ensuring.