Continuous growth in the quantity of municipal solid waste (MSW) and increasing demands for their environmentally-friendly treatment are one of the main consequences of the growing social and economic development rate in modern society. Despite ecologically sustainable trends in waste management systems around the world, open dumps are still the main waste treatment option in Russia. This study aims to help the local municipality administration in Irkutsk (Russia) identify the most appropriate direction for current waste management and its optimization. Within this study four developed MSW management scenarios were assessed and compared with respect to their ecological, economic and social aspects using a life cycle-based integrated waste management model. The evaluation results of these scenarios show that the development of environmental sustainability and the reduction of social effects lead to an increase in handling of costs of waste. The best scenario, regarding both environmental and social aspects, is scenario four, which includes the separate collection and reprocessing of recyclables in combination with an aerobic mechanical-biological pre-treatment of the residual waste before landfilling. However, this scenario is 3.6 times more expensive than the existing system. The results of all assessed scenarios were further analyzed and recommendations were made to design integrated waste management solutions that are optimal not only from the ecological and social points of view, but which are also realistic within the given economic situation.

Осаждение из модельного раствора ионов меди высокой концентрации с использованием сельскохозяйственных отходов (экстрактов из оболочек стручков Pisum sativum

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The largest SMW landfill in the Irkutsk region is that in the Irkutsk city. In 2014, high heavy metal contents were registered in landfill soil samples taken at the landfill site, and it was proposed to perform monitoring outside the landfill in 2019 and determine the pollution distribution area. In this article, the comparative analysis of the degree of heavy metal pollution of the landfill soil and soil from sanitary protection zone is presented. It was established that the studied landfill soil refers to extremely hazardous soils with heavy metal contents that are up to 68 times higher than TLV. Soil samples from the landfill-affected area also contain heavy metals in high concentrations. The manufacturing supervision of the SMW landfill should include the continuous observation of the soil, water, and air condition in the zone of possible impact of the landfill for taking timely environmental protection measures and preventing further negative impact of the landfill on the ecosystem.

The sequence of operations for the processing of secondary raw materials has been proposed based on the analysis of the physicochemical properties of the main metals: copper, zinc, lead and tin contained in the metal concentrate from waste processing, including the developing complete state diagrams of binary systems of copper with lead and zinc, including the melt-vapor phase transition in vacuum. The proposed technology includes preliminary smelting of the concentrate into roughing brass for composition averaging and subsequent distillative extraction of lead and zinc each into roughing metals at a temperature of more than 1000°C with a decrease in pressure from atmospheric to 30 Pa. Copper-base still bottoms can be processed in copper production. Technological studies have confirmed the fundamental possibility of such technological scheme.