Municipal solid waste management in Russia: practices and challenges

摘要

It is annually produced 400 thousand tons of solid waste in the city of Rostov-on-Don, which is taken for disposal to landfill at the Northwest industrial area of the city. Nearly 60 tons of waste enters Rostov Material Recovery Facility every year for the sorting, extracting commercially attractive factions, pressing, briquetting and subsequent transportation of "residue tail" to the landfill. However, the percentage of recycling in Rostov (10%) remains low, as a result of the shortcomings of the system.