Problems and prospects of the implementation of "garbage" reform in Russian regions

This paper dwells upon the garbage reform, the problems of its implementation in the regions of Russia. The relevance and practical significance are connected with increasing environmental requirements for the life of modern man and the need to analyze the implementation of the reform in the country. As a result of the reform, the authority for handling solid municipal waste (SMW) was transferred to the regional level through the creation of regional operators; garbage collection and sorting are defined as a separate utility service; the scheme of waste management and the payment scheme for their removal and sorting have been changed. The assessment of the current situation in the regions made it possible to formulate key problems that are all-Russian in nature: the lack of containers for garbage sorting, collisions in regulations, the non-compliance of landfills with modern requirements, unauthorized landfills, the reluctance of people to sort garbage and others. A number of recommendations were proposed, in particular, training the population in separate garbage collection, including on-line Internet resources.