The article is devoted to the problems of the development of instrumental approaches to modeling of the municipal solid waste management system. A main purpose of the study is to develop a concept for joint accounting of the economic and environmental efficiency of the functioning of the municipal solid waste management system in the construction of economic and mathematical models. The generalization of world experience allows us to identify the insufficient elaboration of these issues. It allows also to determine the degree of limitations of existing approaches for the purposes of applied modeling of this area, as well as to identify their main strengths and weaknesses. In order to overcome these problems, a conceptual model of the functioning of the regional municipal solid waste management system has been developed, based on the synthesis of intersectoral and agency approaches. It is shown that it is promising for the further development of existing approaches to economic and mathematical modeling of this area in the direction of a more complete and simultaneous consideration of these aspects of efficiency, behavioral features and the main interrelationships of economic entities, as well as measures of state environmental policy.
Assessment of municipal solid waste management system in Lae City, Papua New Guinea in the context of sustainable development
