EURO-ECO 2006 Hanover 1 - 2 December 2006	Environmental and Engineering Aspects for sustainable living
	European Academy of Natural Sciences, Hanover European Scientific Society, Hanover Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Moscow

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V.S. Chekalin

Increase of environmental problems in St.-Petersburg in many respects is caused by the inadequate organization of the solid household and dangerous waste management system. In front of St.-Petersburg on the one hand there is a problem of increase in volume of city waste and complications of their structure, and on the other hand - a problem of the limited capacity of operating landfills, and also presence of not authorized dumps. The traditional approach assumes the attitude to waste exclusively as to dust, which it is necessary to get rid of. And meanwhile accumulated on landfills both not authorized dumps and again formed waste represent a valuable source of raw material for a process industry, and their rational use can become a basis for increase of economic potential of city.

This fact increases a urgency of development and realization of the program «Use of solid household waste in St.-Petersburg on 2006 - 2014», based on complex approach which has well proved in the European countries to a waste management, assuming interconnection of actions on different aspects of the solid waste management.

Delay with development and realization of the Program can lead to irreversible ecological consequences and even greater expenses for elimination of ecological danger.

Variants of the decision of a problem can be a little:

1. Increase in capacities existing waste processing plants and landfills;
2. Construction of an incinerator and allocation of the new areas under landfills;
3. Introduction of system of separate waste collection, construction of complexes for sorting solid waste and system of waste processing manufactures.

The offered Program assumes choosing the third way and consist of following sections:

1. Legislative maintenance, which includes actions on formation of the full legal base adjusting all aspects of the solid household waste handling in St.-Petersburg, providing conformity of regional acts and instructions to nation-wide normative documents.
2. Organizational maintenance, which includes actions on precise differentiation of functions and definition of mechanisms of interaction between the various enterprises and the organizations, an engaged in collection, transportation and processing of solid household waste in St.-Petersburg.
3. Technical and technological maintenance, which includes actions on maintenance of necessary amount and quality of means of collection, transportation and processing of solid household waste in St.-Petersburg during all planned period by carrying out of competition and a choice of the most comprehensible variant in the ratio «the price - quality», including in view of transition to separate collection of waste.
4. Financial and economic maintenance, which includes actions on formation of economically proved tariffs for collection, transportation and processing of solid household waste in St.-Petersburg assuming the full indemnification of expenses for rendering of given services.
5. Information and statistical maintenance, which includes the mechanism of carrying out of monitoring of various characteristics of functioning of solid waste management system in St.-Petersburg and updating on this basis of information bases.
6. Personnel and social-psychological maintenance, which includes actions on formation of the steady qualified personnel potential of sphere of solid waste management system in St.-Petersburg and actions on advertising and promotion of separate collection of waste.

Thus, to solve the problems of solid waste management in St.-Petersburg a complex approach has been chosen. It implies minimization of waste generation, maximal utilization of secondary resources and disposing by landfills only a minor part of waste.