Problemi Ekonomiki (Nov 2022)
The Infrastructural Provision of Regional Waste Management in the Context of a Circular Economy (Example of the Kharkiv Region)
Abstract
The article proposes an integrated approach to assessing the development of a waste management system on the example of the Kharkiv region. This approach is based on the use of a complex of indicators that characterize the current state of functioning of this system from both the ecological and the economic points of view. Based on the results of the diagnostics, barriers, threats, and ecological principles of function of the regional waste management system are identified. As a result of the study, it is substantiated that in order to provide an effective infrastructural provision of waste management, it is advisable to introduce a logistics approach, the essence of which is to integrate the principles of transformation of the waste management system, priority directions of waste recycling in the face of the destruction of critical infrastructure objects, implementation of the reverse logistics algorithm, the main components of the organizational and economic mechanism (functions, methods, management instruments, information systems, digital, «green», and innovative technologies), financial instruments of green investment for the implementation of the regional waste management strategy in the Kharkiv region. The implementation of the proposed approach will facilitate the adoption of substantiated innovative decisions on the greening of logistics activities and ecological management; timely solution of problems on the management of reverse flows of production waste using the principles of green and reverse logistics; minimizing the negative impact on the environment by reducing the volume of waste generation, increasing the volume of processing and reuse of waste; effective implementation of circular economy models, transition to expanding the responsibility of producers; increasing the level of ecological safety of the region; achieving the goals of sustainable development of the regional economy. It is found that in order to improve the waste management system in the region, it is expedient to: introduce the latest technologies and equipment for the collection, sorting, transportation, processing and disposal of waste, taking into account best European practices; promoting the use of waste recycling as a secondary raw material on the basis of «green» investment; development of a financial mechanism for the use of public-private partnership based on attracting private investment and other extra-budgetary sources of financing in the field of waste management; creation of an appropriate logistics infrastructure (for example, a cluster structure as an organizational form of partnership) for waste management; development and implementation of instruments for economic stimulation of waste disposal; implementation of the concept of reverse logistics in the context of a circular economy.
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