Municipal solid waste statistics: trends, problems, objects

This article is devoted to the important issue of information provision of environmental studies i.e. to the problems of accounting and management of municipal solid waste (MSW), in old terminology «household solid waste». The paper includes results of economic and statistical analysis of indicators in question; it lists negative trends of recent decades that were associated with both increased negative impacts on the environment from the growth of waste disposal sites and increase in losses of material resources. The authors scrupulously examined the underlying situation in Moscow, St. Petersburg and several other Russian cities. In the recent years Russian government adopted various laws and regulations on this subject to improve the existing environmental situation; this paper contains assessment of their effectiveness in regard to perfecting (bettering) MSW statistics. The authors explain the connection between statistical observation and the Federal Waste Classification Catalogue (FWCC). By doing so, they not only identified and described advantages of this Catalogue, but established the impediments to advancing statistical observation that require immediate removal. This article analyzes the development of MSW statistics in Russia, along with the system of indicators and statistical toolkit that is used in our country. There is also an assessment of the national and departmental statistics (more specifically, statistical observations in the system of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation). With regard to newly established fiscal element - environmental fee, the authors examine its subject matter; describe the procedure for its collection and spending, characterize measures associated with its accounting activities. In order to comprehensively cover the subject of the study, there is a review of organization system and methodology for collecting (acquiring) statistical data in OECD/Eurostat and the United States. In the case of OECD/Eurostat - is used the Joined Questionnaire that is sent out to the national statistical authorities. For the United States the authors selected two main organizational and technical approaches to collecting summary data. The paper presents the system for data aggregation, summary calculation, grouping, and etc. The authors selected most successful foreign practices for organizing statistics and accounting. They carried out economic and statistical analysis of MSW management, reflecting Russian and foreign trends in this area. The paper ends with critical feedback and relevant proposals.

твердые коммунальные отходы (ТКО), твердые бытовые отходы (ТБО), законодательство в области ТКО/ТБО, Федеральный классификационный каталог отходов (ФККО), экологический сбор, учет и статистика ТКО/ТБО, международный опыт организации статистики ТКО, межгосударственные сравнения, municipal solid waste (MSW), household solid waste (HSW), legislation in the field of MSW, Federal Waste Classification Catalogue (FWCC), environmental fee, accounting and MSW statistics, international experience of organizing MSW statistics, inter-state comparisons

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