Waste Accumulation in Sectors of the Russian Federation’s Extractive Industries

ABSTRACT

This article examines the generation and accumulation of waste in the extractive sector and associated sectors that process its products. These spheres of activity are Russia’s main source of production waste. The authors calculate direct and total coefficients of waste intensity in these sectors, thus making it possible to assess environmental pressure. They also analyze the materials of the Strategy for Developing the Industry for the Processing, Utilization, and Neutralization of Production and Consumption Waste to 2030. In addition, this article examines the main directions for improving the institutional mechanisms of Russia’s environmental legislation. These directions are necessary to successfully meet the goals and objectives laid out in the document.

KEYWORDS:

• generation and accumulation of production waste
• technogenic fields
• indicators of direct and total waste intensity
• Strategy for Developing the Waste Processing Industry

Supplementary material

Supplemental data for this article can be accessed online at https://doi.org/10.1080/10611991.2022.2145168

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Notes

This work was carried out pursuant to the plan for the research work of IEIS SB RAS, project XI.170.1.1, “Innovatsionnye i ekologicheskie aspekty strukturnoi transformatsii rossiiskoi ekonomiki v usloviiakh novoi geopoliticheskoi real’nosti,” No. АААА-А17-117022250127-8.

1. See Federal Law No. 458-FZ of December 29, 2014, “O vnesenii izmenenii v FZ No. 89-FZ ot 24.06.98 “Ob otkhodakh proizvodstva i potrebleniia” i otdel’nye zakonodatel’nye akty RF.”

2. Instruction of the Government of January 25, 2018, No. 84-r, “Ob utverzhdenii Strategii razvitiia promyshlennosti po obrabotke, utilizatsii i obezvrezhivaniiu otkhodov proizvodstva i potrebleniia na period do 2030 g.,” p. 6 (available at http://static.government.ru/media/files/y8PMkQGZLfbY7jhn6QMruaKoferAowzJ.pdf, date accessed: March 15, 2019).

3. Article 4.1 of the federal law on production and consumption waste (in Federal Law of December 30, 2008, No. 309-FZ): Depending on the level of its negative environmental effect, waste is divided into five hazard classes: I, extremely hazardous; II, very hazardous; III, moderately hazardous; IV, slightly hazardous; V, practically nonhazardous waste.

4. Gosudarstvennyi doklad “O sostoianii i ob okhrane okruzhaiushchei sredy Rossiiskoi Federatsii v 2016 godu” (Moscow: Minprirody Rossii; NIA-Priroda, 2017), 760 pp.

5. Ibid.

6. “Tablitsy resursov i ispol’zovaniia tovarov i uslug za 2015 g.,” official site of Rosstat (available at http://www.gks.ru/wps/wcm/connect/rosstat_main/rosstat/ru/ statistics/accounts/#, data accessed: March 1, 2019).

7. “Production of coke and petroleum products” occupies the 23rd position in the Table of Resources and Use of Goods and Services for 2015, official site of Rosstat (available at http://www.gks.ru/wps/wcm/connect/rosstat_main/rosstat/ru/statistics/accounts/#, date accessed: March 1, 2019).

8. “Production of bituminous coal and lignite” occupies the 10th position in the Table of Resources and Use of Goods and Services.

9. Instruction of the Government of the Russian Federation of September 13, 2016, No. 913 “O stavkakh platy za negativnoe vozdeistvie na okruzhaiushchuiu sredu i dopolnitel’nykh koeffitsientakh,” Konsul’tant Plius (available at http://www.consultant.ru/cons/cgi/online.cgi?req=doc&base=LAW&n=301545&fld=134&dst=1000000001,0&rnd=0.6211451662364209#008461947688806148, date accessed: April 14, 2019).