Zero Waste Technologies and Solution of Economic and Environmental Problems of Sustainable Development

Abstract

Economic and environmental problems are closely related, and solving some of them, the others cannot be solved. The state of the environment directly forms the potential of the economic sphere. For example, resources for industrial enterprises are formed in the natural environment, and the capacity of plants and factories depends on resources’ quantity. The amount of money to be spent on the purchase and installation of treatment plants, on the measures to eliminate water, air and soil pollution, depends upon the profit. Each country has its own list of environmental problems related to the economy. They are engaged in their elimination at the state level, but first of all the responsibility for the consequences is the burden of companies’ management. The active development of the economy should not adversely affect the state of the environment. Both individual enterprises and whole states should control the economic and environmental situation in order to achieve a balance and solve global problems. The most important form of interaction between the state and business in solving economic-and-environmental problems is the introduction of zero waste technologies in all their diversity and achieving their multiplicative effect. The paper shows the relationship between environmentally-oriented innovative development of the economy and the introduction of zero waste technologies.

Information Space for Sustainable Development and its Modern Transformation

“…The author's interpretation of the information space in the sustainable development system is based on the principles of the relativistic paradigm, combining the provisions of the neoclassical general equilibrium model and the Keynesian stochastic model, supplemented by the methodological provisions of the neoinstitutional theory [10][11] and behavioral economics. Environmental specificity of sustainable growth [12][13] also must be taken into account. The research is based on the principle of methodological institutionalism, according to which regional development in the spatial dimension is explained using the tools of the institutional theory of behavior and the principle of institutional rationality, aimed at obtaining benefits from the spatial allocation of assets (spatial rent in the form of factor income) in conditions of imperfect competition, which is associated with a certain amount of costs, including transaction costs.…”

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“…Quite a lot of attention in recent studies of technological modernization is paid to environmentally friendly industries (Jiaa et al, 2017;Dotsenko et al, 2019).…”

National Technology Initiative as a Platform for the Diffusion of Convergent Technologies in the Russian Mining Industry

“…The potential for a new breakthrough in increasing the economic efficiency and competitiveness of the Russian extractive sector in the global economy is determined by its deep technological modernization [12][13][14]. At present, the specific productivity of equipment used in the mining sector is increasing by 10-12% every 5 years, which is especially typical for open pit mining [15][16].…”