Waste management system in Buryatia (Russia) and ways to reorganise it based on the Asian countries’ experience

Abstract

Waste accumulation leads to pollution of atmospheric air, soil, surface water and groundwater. Russian waste management practice is storage in landfills and dumps, and incineration in specialised plants. Today the percentage of recycling is low. In this article we analyse foreign experience of Asian countries on separate waste collection (China). Introduction of information technologies and encouragement of citizens for separate waste collection - a basis of system of the waste management in the People’s Republic of China. The current situation and identified problems in the Republic of Buryatia show the necessity of separate waste collection. We proposed the ways of reorganization of the waste management system, its development directions and also highlighted its socio-economic and environmental effects.