The problem of food waste treatment has attracted serious attention lately, as such wastes are regarded as a source of valuable biological matters. We should consider them as a resource, which can be used in the future to produce forage, fertilizers, etc. The authors carried out investigations aimed at revealing problems of food waste treatment. Analysis of the effective legal acts allows us to draw a conclusion, that the major part of these acts cannot create conditions directed to preferable and priority utilization of food wastes, therefore recommendations aimed at elimination of gaps in the field of waste regulation are advanced. First of all it is necessary to specify available definitions and introduce new ones in the field of food waste management, to ban destruction and burial of food waste, build infrastructure for separate garbage collection with obligatory use of bins for food waste. At the same time it is needed to adopt a law about food-sharing, to insert amendments into the Tax Code of the Russian Federation and to remove from the list of taxation entities food stuffs with expiring BBD in case of their free transfer. These changes could release trade enterprises from taxes and thus motivate companies not to reduce foods to the condition of food waste. Serious attention should be paid to technologies of their utilization and assessment of efficiency of technological solutions on their use in the field of food stuffs management in the Russian Federation in order to decrease amounts of food with expiring BBD and food waste.
A key problem, which requires solution in today’s situation, is treatment of food waste. Nowadays food waste is mainly buried and it does harm to the environment and people’s heals, pollutes air because of dump gases (including greenhouse gases), soil and water and causes irreversible climatic changes. It is necessary to pass over to such level of production and consumption, which could minimize and even eliminate waste formation. The authors of the article substantiate the need to take steps aimed at waste involvement in economic turn-over by its recycling, which requires the development of the effective mechanism of food waste control in the Russian Federation. The economic mechanism shall include the system of normative, legal and other documents in the field of treating food waste, a set of technological and infrastructure decisions aimed at utilization of food products with expiring BB dates, methodological recommendations on cutting food waste formed in business activity and its utilization.
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