ANALYSIS OF MANAGEMENT MECHANISMS OF PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION WASTE MANAGEMENT IN ASIAN COUNTRIES

Abstract

The article is dedicated to the analysis of production and consumption waste management strategies in Asian countries and presents an overview of foreign studies in this field. The factors influencing the generation and composition of waste are identified and analysed in the context of regional specificities: demographic, social, economic, environmental, institutional. The complexity of the Asian scenario is caused by population growth, rapid industrialisation and urbanisation, as well as changes in waste composition and generation rates. The management mechanisms and technologies of waste management in Asia vary significantly depending on the level of economic and technological development of the countries, environmental standards, institutional factors determining the state regulation of this sphere and influencing positive and negative motivation in the behavioural strategies of economic agents, development of environmental awareness of the population, and range from progressive to very conservative. The characteristics of collection, transport, treatment and utilisation processes (open burial, composting, incineration) in developed and developing Asian countries are considered.