Problems of Compiling the Handbook on Best Available Techniques for Waste Management

Abstract

The authors considered the researches aimed at development of the Handbook on Best Available Techniques (BAT) in Waste Disposal and provided data on regulatory legal acts of the Russian Federation governing compilation of the handbooks on BAT. The authors described the main stages of collection and processing of the information on techniques of waste usage and neutralization for its subsequent evaluation in the terms of conformity to BAT. The authors gave the priority groups of wastes neutralization of which shall be mentioned in the handbooks. The authors proposed the types of waste disposal facilities, and engineering, operation and destruction techniques, which shall be reasonably considered in the handbooks. The problems faced by handbook creators are shown.