scholarly journals Organization and Economic Principles for Collection, Storage and Utilization of Solid Household Wastes and Garbage: Macroregional Analysis

2017 ◽  
pp. 40-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
М. V. Shchuryk ◽  
О. R. Nadraha

Processes of collection, processing, removal, storage and utilization of solid household wastes and garbage are analyzed. Problems associated with their organization were aggravating in Ukraine during the transition to the market-based economic model radically changing the waste treatment mechanisms operated in the period of administrative and command system. It is demonstrated that Ukraine still has no well-functioning management system enabling for the civilized treatment of household wastes, including their recycling and utilization. The process of household wastes and garbage removal is disorganized and erratic. The chaotic way of collecting household wastes and garbage, used in many countries as a resource supportive to the economic development, needs to be firmly rejected. The global practices show that the problems of utilization and reuse of household wastes and garbage can be dealt with through intensive innovating and intellectualization. The effectiveness of solutions to the above problems is also conditional on two key actors: local self-governance bodies and citizens concerned with the matter. Assurance of social and environmental benefits is their necessary component. By the current organization and economic principles, enterprises active in processing, utilization and storage of household wastes and garbage are assigned the key role in treatment of household wastes. The advanced organization and economic principles for collection, storage and utilization of household wastes and garbage in Ukraine can be introduced once the nation-wide conceptual model for the development of this economic activity is elaborated. It needs to rely upon the Keynesian model that accounts for not only the interests of capital, but conforms, in many ways, to the human values concerned with environmental protection. The mechanism for collection, removal, storage, utilization and processing of solid household wastes and garbage needs to be organized as a full-fledged component of the social reproduction process. The key problem which solution will help adopt the new organization and economic principles for utilization and disposal of wastes is to create the conditions for constructing waste recycling fact ories, including the system of preferences. As shown by practices of many developed countries, they ensure effective processing and recycling of household wastes and garbage and reduce the land areas required for wastes and garbage placement.

Author(s):  
Alexey Tsikin

The article is devoted to the analysis of the modern aspects of the reproduction process transformation in the context of the development of Russian economy. To achieve this goal, the work analyzes the transformation of the stages of social reproduction, as well as evaluates its impact on the relevant process scheme. It has been established that today each stage is undergoing significant changes, in particular, production methods and manufactured products are improved, the distribution of resources between sectors of economy is changing, exchange processes are expanding, and goals and methods of consumption are transformed. Among the features of modern reproduction models, the growth of the non-material sphere due to the development of the service market and their integration with material production, the implementation of the reproduction of a social product based on innovative production and Schumpeter competition, the establishment of human capital being a source of innovation as the basis of the reproduction process, should be noted. The current level of the development of Russian economy and promising requirements for the reproduction process in the neo-industrial model lead to the need to separate the stage of institutional and technological design of the product life cycle and to include a separate phase of scientific training in the traditional chain of stages of the social reproduction process. The results of the work can be used as a supplement to modern neoclassical theories and re-actualized political and economic methodologies.


Social Forces ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
pp. 259
Author(s):  
Stephen J. Mcnamee ◽  
James Dickinson ◽  
Bob Russell

2010 ◽  
Vol 439-440 ◽  
pp. 269-273
Author(s):  
Pei Jiang ◽  
Li Dong ◽  
Gao Li Yang

With the progress of human society and the rapid development of economy, the world's energy shortages have become increasingly prominent and the energy-saving and environmental protection has gradually become the priority over the social and economic area. How to achieve the rational and efficient use of energy, and protect the natural environment have become an important issue that all countries in the world concerned and confronted with presently. As one emerging technology steam condensate recovery can not only greatly improve the energy efficiency but also realize the conservation of water resources has been widely used in some developed countries in recent years. And it has achieved considerable economic and environmental benefits.


GeoTextos ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Emanuel Fernando Reis de Jesus

As relações estabelecidas entre clima e saúde são inúmeras e vêm desde a Antiguidade. A Climatologia e a Epidemiologia possuem estreitos laços históricos que têm se tornado cada vez mais próximos, ao longo de suas etapas evolutivas, em função dos atuais problemas ambientais que produzem efeitos impactantes para a saúde humana. Este trabalho tem por objetivo principal tecer algumas considerações sobre as interfaces dessas duas áreas de conhecimento, focalizando os métodos e as técnicas comuns em estudos de caráter interdisciplinar. Clima e saúde são um binômio de extremo interesse por parte de inúmeros profissionais envolvendo discussões de natureza inter e multidisciplinares. O espaço no contexto desta temática representa uma importante categoria de análise, sendo concebido como uma contingência histórica do processo de reprodução social, geradora da necessidade de organização econômica e social de um determinado ordenamento espacial. Na Geografia, o espaço é físico, é econômico, é político, não há, pois, como pensar o homem abstraindo essa categoria. No âmbito dos estudos epidemiológicos, o espaço tem sido considerado sob diferentes abordagens, mais do que a mera identificação de fatores causais, envolvendo, cada vez mais, o estabelecimento do contexto ambiental e social em que se processam os fenômenos de saúde. Em suma, as questões aqui apresentadas estão diretamente associadas ao descompasso existente no mundo cada vez mais globalizado e ao mesmo tempo comprometido com a relação sociedade-natureza. Abstract INTERFACE BETWEEN CLIMATOLOGY AND EPIDEMIOLOGY: A GEOGRAPHICAL APPROACH The relations established between climate and health are numerous and have come a long way since antiquity. Climatology and epidemiology have close historical ties which have become increasingly close to each other along their evolutionary lines due to currently environmental problems that produce impact on the human health. This paper mainly aims to bring some considerations upon the interfaces of these two areas of knowledge, focusing on methods and techniques common in studies of interdisciplinary character. The climate and health binomial is of great particular interest of numerous professionals involving discussions of inter and multidisciplinary nature. The space in the context of this theme represents an important category of analysis, being designed as a historical contingency of the social reproduction process, generating the need for economic and social organization of a particular spatial planning. In Geography, space is physical, is economical, political, and there is, therefore, no way of thinking man abstracting of this category. Within the framework of epidemiological studies, the space has been considered under different approaches, beyond the mere identification of causal factors, involving increasingly, the establishment of the environmental and social context in which the health phenomena are processed. In short, the issues presented here are directly associated with the existing gap in the increasingly globalised world and at the same time committed to the society-nature relationship.


2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (14) ◽  
pp. 7883
Author(s):  
Dong Mu ◽  
Shaoqing Zhang

Facing enormous pressure from the rapid growth of waste on the environment and society, many developed countries have combined urban waste recycling systems with waste classification to reduce pollution and recycle resources. However, this technique is not well established in developing countries. From the 2000s, China has carried out many waste classification recycling projects in many pilot cities although they have yet to reach widespread success. This paper focuses on China’s Newest Waste Classification Recycling Project (NWCRP), which was first implemented in Shanghai from 2019 and has a three-echelon supply chain containing waste classification guiders (WCGs), recyclers and demanders. Firstly, two recycling modes in NWCRP are studied: the recyclers of the first mode are dominated by the recycling company (mode RC), and the recyclers of the second mode are dominated by the environmental sanitation engineering group (mode ESEG). Secondly, a reward—penalty policy is proposed, which can be implemented for WCGs or different recyclers in the two modes (RC or ESEG), and the impacts of different scenarios are also compared. The results showed that (1) with increasing reward—penalty intensity, the sorting rate and the profit show upward trends in two modes, while the subsidy efficiency of government decreases; (2) when the reward—penalty policy is implemented for WCGs, the recyclers’ recycling price decreases in the two modes; (3) all scenarios that implement the reward—penalty policy in mode RC have certain advantages in the sorting rate and profit and (4) with increasing reward—penalty intensity and target sorting rate in the reward—penalty policy, the social welfare first increases and then decreases in all scenarios. Finally, some suggestions on the recycling mode and the reward—penalty policy for establishing a 3RW recycling system are provided.


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