The Wastewater Disposal System Modernization During Processing of Amber Deposit as a Way to Reduce the Anthropogenic Load on the Baltic Sea Ecosystem

Abstract

The research is devoted to assessing the negative impact of the amber-succinite deposit in the Kaliningrad region as one of the sources of complex pollution of the Baltic Sea waters. The Baltic Sea is one of the most polluted water bodies in Europe today. There are many natural and anthropogenic factors that cause this ecological situation. Industry is one of the significant contributors to the pollution of the waters of the Baltic Sea. The industrial wastewater discharged into the Baltic Sea often does not comply with the state ecological standards. The wastewater disposal system modernization by creating a recycled water supply is one of the most effective ways to reduce the negative impact of industrial wastewater on the Baltic Sea ecosystem nowadays. This technological solution allows to significantly reduce or to completely prevent the discharge of wastewater into the Baltic Sea.

The Impact of Human Capital on the Success of an Agricultural Cooperative (Example of ‘Arla Foods’)

“…Net profit of Arla Foods is also showing positive dynamics and in 2019 reaches 323 million euros (3.0% of revenue, with target values of this indicator in the range of 2.8 to 3.2%). According to the company's management, this allows them to accumulate unallocated capital for future investments, provide additional payments to owner-farmers, pay in good faith the maximum possible share of the profit through the prepaid milk price, and on an ongoing basis (Asaliev, et al, 2014; Strizhenok et al, 2019). In general, the stable financial position of the cooperative gives it the opportunity (1) to invest in the implementation of the strategy developed for 2020 "Good Growth 2020", (2) to implement the common vision for the development of the dairy industry in the near future.…”

Characteristics of current challenges, risks and uncertainties in the field of natural resource management

“…The business immunity to the use of breakthrough technologies is illustrated by the small share of subsurface management organizations implementing the technological innovations; their share decreased from 6.6% (2010) to 5.5% (2016), and the share of technological innovation costs in subsurface management in the total production cost is 1.3% [17, p. 82]. The attitude of modern business in Russia to the new environmentallyfriendly, energy-saving, resource efficient technologies is specified by the share of the R&D expenditures [18]. Figure 5 shows the comparative data on these costs in relative and absolute values.…”

“…At present, there are no quantitative dependences of changes in properties (forest resources) and functions (environment-forming, habitat-forming, environment-protective) of the disturbed forest lands in the old industrial regions of the Urals and in the newly intensively developed territories of Western Siberia. The publications [18,19,20] present the parameters of single-point pollution of the soil covering and ground cover of the disturbed lands. Information support on the contaminant movement (especially radioactive contaminants [21]) on the forest lands, depending on the terrain and specifications of the vegetation cover) indicates only the boundaries of such movement (hilltops, type of vegetation cover on the contaminated area).…”