SOCIOECOLOGICAL RESEARCH AND FORECAST OF ENVIRONMENTALLY SAFE CONSUMPTION WASTE MANAGEMENT IN CITIES

Abstract

Based on socio-ecological research (studies of environmental problems of a social nature) into the factors and conditions of the region's socio-economic development, approaches to forecasting an environmentally safe municipal waste management system have been developed using the city of Perm as an example. A comparative analysis of the formulation of the term "waste" is provided. The paper demonstrates that one of the most acceptable mechanisms for preventing the negative impact of waste, which creates a high level of environmental hazard for the natural environment and human life, is a new approach to the concept of "waste" as a subject of environmental, commodity-money, and other types of legal relations and the transition of the entire system for handling obsolete, used products to a technical-social-economic system: resource consumers - equipment - secondary resources (SR) and the management of this system using economic and legal regulation mechanisms, in which SR and alternative (inexhaustible) energy sources will be the subject of social relations, which will contribute to the sustainable development of the Russian economy as a whole. A technical, socio-economic system structure was developed, showing the material flows of the secondary waste industry. As part of a state assignment to calculate municipal solid waste (MSW) accumulation standards in the Perm Krai, the percentage of components suitable for recycling was determined. MSW in the studied samples was classified by degree of biodegradation to determine the subsequent waste flow pattern. Using the Kolmogorov equation system, transition probabilities were determined for the existing and new secondary resource flow patterns. The results of the study can be applied in developing programs to ensure environmental safety in territories and plans to prevent emergencies with negative environmental consequences.