EURO-ECO 2011 Hanover 21 - 22 November 2011	Environmental, Engineering - Economic and Legal Aspects for Sustainable Living
	European Academy of Natural Sciences, Hanover European Scientific Society, Hanover University of Bremen, Bremen

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It is annually produced 400 thousand tons of solid waste in the city of Rostov-on-Don, which are taken to landfill for disposal to the Northwest industrial area of the city. Nearly 60 tons of waste per year enters Rostov Material Reclamation Facility for the sorting, extracting commercially attractive factions, pressing, briquetting and subsequent transportation of “residue tail” to the landfill.

The average increase of waste storage for the recent years is rather steady, averaging 4-5% annually. It has a negative impact on the environment, covering more and more vast territories under landfill for disposal.

The key problems affecting the management of all types of waste streams in the city are:

• imperfection of the existing urban transport scheme of waste from collection sites to processing facilities or disposal;
• a large amount of waste with low level of recovery, which is sent for disposal at landfill;
• misunderstanding of the concept of waste management (instead of practice of sanitary purification of territory should be established municipal waste management economics).

The above shortcomings caused the development of strategies for dealing with Rostov-on-Don municipal solid waste through the use of geographic information technologies. This will solve the following issues:

1. Determine the prospects for the municipal solid waste management in the medium and long term relation. It is necessary for stable operation of enterprises and to attract the appropriate scope of its investments.
2. Establish a continuous process of information provision of solid waste.
3. Increase the supply of raw materials of economic complex of the region through increased use of recycled materials.
4. Improve the environmental situation in the region and the surrounding areas by increasing the volume of recyclable waste and improve existing technologies.
5. Improve the rationality of land use by reducing the areas occupied by illegal dumps, and increasing the proportion of recyclable waste.

Administration of Rostov-on-Don, introduced a system of solid waste management in the city in accordance with the “Phased program of the creation of a new waste management system in the city of Rostov-on-Don.” Under this system, a municipal agency “Clean City” provides the management: a recycling service for the collection of paper, cans, glass and plastic; the bulk collection service is free of charge; two-stages of transportation through the operation of transfer stations; Material reclamation Facility; operated landfill site and monitoring others which are closed now.

The advantage of the current municipal solid waste management system in Rostov-on-Don is an implementation of interactive management system at the landfill site and Material recovery facility. This system includes automatic control system of transportation, registration and waste allocation.

Thus, the management system of solid waste that exists in Rostov-on-Don, has many advantages, but does not solve all the problems existing in the city and region. For their successful resolution is necessary to introduce an integrated system of solid waste management.

At present the main areas of interests, connecting with collection and recycling in the city of Rostov-on-Don, in our opinion, are following:

• the introduction of integrated mechanization of municipal solid waste management;
• the lowest rate of residue after waste recovering:
• the highest rate of recycling;
• ecofriendly processing and storing the remainder of the waste;
• development of operated market of waste and recycled material;
• adoption of tax remissions; lax credit and acquisition of license;
• optimization of rate prices for waste disposal, implementation of a new strategy “Pay as you throw” (PAYT), which would encourage citizens to reduce their individual waste because of financial incentives.

These recommendations will help municipal government to improve the system of waste management in Rostov-on-Don. This will lead to improved living standards and improving financial sustainability of the urban economy that is important in the present circumstance

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