Ecological and economic efficiency of household waste disposal

Abstract

The article is devoted to the issue of disposal of solid household waste. At the moment, much attention is paid to the ecology of the earth. One of the most significant sources of pollution of the planet is household waste. Over the past 20 years, there has been an active increase in the volumes of solid household waste that adversely affects the ecology of the earth. The main task is not only to reduce the amount of waste produced, but also to introduce high-tech methods of waste disposal. In global practice, a large number of different methods are used, which allow utilizing solid household waste in an environmentally friendly and economical manner. Currently, in Russia, 97 % of this waste disposal goes through landfill, which is harmful and dangerous to nature and humans, as well as costly for the state. To eliminate this problem, the authors propose to sort waste by type of raw material. When separating solid household waste with the application to each type of a specific disposal technology, you can get significant environmental and economic benefits. The paper considers the way of utilization of organic municipal waste with processing into biogas with the calculation of the economic effect of processing through the example of large cities of the Russian Federation.