Abstract
Economic and environmental problems are closely related, and solving some of them, the others cannot be solved. The state of the environment directly forms the potential of the economic sphere. For example, resources for industrial enterprises are formed in the natural environment, and the capacity of plants and factories depends on resources’ quantity. The amount of money to be spent on the purchase and installation of treatment plants, on the measures to eliminate water, air and soil pollution, depends upon the profit. Each country has its own list of environmental problems related to the economy. They are engaged in their elimination at the state level, but first of all the responsibility for the consequences is the burden of companies’ management. The active development of the economy should not adversely affect the state of the environment. Both individual enterprises and whole states should control the economic and environmental situation in order to achieve a balance and solve global problems. The most important form of interaction between the state and business in solving economic-and-environmental problems is the introduction of zero waste technologies in all their diversity and achieving their multiplicative effect. The paper shows the relationship between environmentally-oriented innovative development of the economy and the introduction of zero waste technologies.
Highlights
The environmental problems caused by rapid economic development around the world are numerous: the depletion of natural resources, especially non-renewable; large amounts of industrial wastes; environmental pollution with radioactive and toxic elements; lowering the fertility of the land; reduction of agricultural land; lower production efficiency; the use of outdated and unsafe equipment; deterioration of working conditions of people; lack of rationalization of land and water resources management [1
Specialists have proposed the definition of zero waste technology, which is taken as the main one for further use [12-14]: Zero waste technology is the practical application of knowledge, methods and means to ensure the rational use of natural resources, energy and environmental protection within human needs
Low-waste technology is an intermediate stage of zero waste and differs from it when provides the finished product with not fully recyclable waste
Summary
The environmental problems caused by rapid economic development around the world are numerous: the depletion of natural resources, especially non-renewable; large amounts of industrial wastes; environmental pollution with radioactive and toxic elements; lowering the fertility of the land; reduction of agricultural land; lower production efficiency; the use of outdated and unsafe equipment; deterioration of working conditions of people; lack of rationalization of land and water resources management [1. Many experts rely on the large-scale introduction of zero waste technologies that will help solve the problem of air, hydrosphere, lithosphere pollution, reduce the amount of garbage [2-3]. The potential positive environmental effect of zero waste technology is immense. Everything else is waste, the unused portion of raw materials. Almost the entire volume of materials taken from nature is returned to it, but already with new properties – as the waste, that lead to a violation of the ecological balance
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