Waste Management and Circular Economy in the Public Discourse in Russia

Nikitina, B.

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-47458-4_54

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“…Russia is one of the non-EU countries that considered it is important to implement different strategies in order to become a country where the Circular Economy and green concepts could be fully adopted, not only for the MSW management but also for other sectors: energy, economy and business models [27]- [33]. Since 2017 the new national waste management strategy, including waste reform and environmental taxes, was introduced, starting from the Federal Law No.…”

Section: Circular Economy Evolutionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Circular Economy Concepts Applied to Waste Anaerobic Digestion Plants

Palermito

Magaril

Conti

et al. 2021

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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Anaerobic digestion contributes to the implementation of circular economy (CE) concepts. This process is assuming an increasingly important function in the treatment of the organic fraction of municipal solid waste (MSW), that is, food waste, where selective collection is optimised. The possibility of combining the recovery of matter with energy makes this approach interesting for the concepts of circular economy. Specifically, the extraction of biomethane from biogas and the following refining of the residual off-gas from impurities gives as result the extraction of CO2 that can also be used for food industry applications. A high-quality source separation of food waste gives the chance to generate a good product, compost, coherently with the aims of the circular economy principles. The use of dry processes of anaerobic digestion allows avoiding the discharge of (treated) water in the environment. Co-digestion is another option that deserves a wider adoption, because of the possibility to exploit existing volumes of digestion. This paper presents a bibliographic research based on current CE progress and MSW anaerobic digestion infrastructure in Italy and Russia. Perspectives of the sector are discussed too.

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Section: Circular Economy Evolutionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Circular Economy Concepts Applied to Waste Anaerobic Digestion Plants

Palermito

Magaril

Conti

et al. 2021

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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“…For the broad practical implementation of the circular economy principles in Russian conditions, social capital is a significant resource. Raising public awareness of resource reuse, deep recycling and sharing of things is supposed to encourage the value creation process [11].…”

Section: The Role Of the Circular Economy In Sustaining Value Creation: Literature Review And Hypotheses Developmentmentioning

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Do circular economy and green investments create value at the regional level? Evidence from Russian regions

Popova¹,

Strikh²

2021

E3S Web Conf.

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Green investments and principles of circular development have become one of the prominent dimensions of regional development policies. The purpose of this article is to study the impact of green investments on circular economy indicators and contribution of these indicators to economic growth at the regional level. The study examines two key indicators of the circular economy: the share of captured and neutralized emissions into the atmosphere and the share of recycled water in the regional manufacturing systems. To test the proposed hypotheses, methods of regression analysis are used. Gross regional product is used as a predictor of value creation. The empirical base is Rosstat data for the period from 2015 to 2019. The results show that the circular economy indicators do not have a visible impact on economic growth at the regional level, but green investments increase the volume of resources used in circular manufacturing systems. It is probable that in Russian industrial economy, implementation of the circular economy principles is associated only with an increase in costs, which do not provide linear returns at the macroeconomic level.

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“…Lakes located in remote and low populated areas in Asia can suffer from microplastics pollution without proper waste management [17,18]. In Russia, where serious problems with waste disposal occur with low recycling rates and primary landfilling [30,31], research on microplastic pollution has just begun. In Lake Baikal, high levels of microplastic pollution have been identified in the water near tourist areas and coastal settlements [32].…”

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Microplastic Pollution in the Surface Waters from Plain and Mountainous Lakes in Siberia, Russia

Malygina

Mitrofanova

Kuryatnikova

et al. 2021

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Microplastics (MPs) contaminations of freshwater and marine environments has become a global issue. Lakes in southern Siberia provide a wide range of ecosystem services and are essential elements in the annual and interannual runoff distribution of the Great Siberian Rivers. However, the extent of their MPs pollution remains unknown. In this paper, for the first time, we analyze the concentrations, composition, and spatial distribution of MPs in six lakes in southern Siberia. The studied lakes are located both in the Altai mountains and the West Siberian plain. Some of them are significantly impacted by human activities, while others are located in protected areas with no permanent population. Nevertheless, MPs were detected in all of the studied lakes. MPs concentrations ranged from 4 to 26 MPs L−1. Comparing with other inland lakes, South Siberian lakes presented moderate MPs concentrations. Among the registered MPs forms, fragments and films were dominant, with a size range between 31 and 60 nm. The MPs’ sources depend on local human activities (fishing, transport, landfilling). Therefore, sufficiently high concentrations were observed even in remote lakes. The present study set a baseline that emphasizes the need for increased attention to waste management and sustainable water use in Siberian freshwater environments.

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Waste Management and Circular Economy in the Public Discourse in Russia

Cited by 6 publications

References 8 publications

Circular Economy Concepts Applied to Waste Anaerobic Digestion Plants

Circular Economy Concepts Applied to Waste Anaerobic Digestion Plants

Do circular economy and green investments create value at the regional level? Evidence from Russian regions

Microplastic Pollution in the Surface Waters from Plain and Mountainous Lakes in Siberia, Russia

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