Analysis of the key issues of reducing the generation of food waste in the Russian Federation, on the example of the US

Abstract

Importance: to achieve one of the most important goals of sustainable development – to ensure the transition to rational models of consumption and production, a global target has been set to halve, per capita, global food waste at the retail and consumer levels by 2030. Food waste is one of the main volume-forming categories in the morphological composition of waste. This growth is accompanied by an increase in atmospheric emissions and general environmental pollution. Purpose: the article is devoted to the issues of identifying the main factors and methods to preventing the formation of food waste in the Russian Federation based on the study of the experience of European countries and the United States. Research design: the author deals with topical problems of the development of the waste management industry in the Russian Federation. The author explores the problems that arise on the way to solving the goals set in the National Project «Ecology» in terms of reducing waste generation in the Russian Federation until 2030. In order to identify the main problems in the development of the MSW management industry, domestic and foreign experience in regulating this industry was studied, as well as academic research on the formation and use of food waste in order to reduce the anthropogenic load on the environment. Results: the article discusses the main approaches to prevent the formation of food and biodegradable waste in the Russian Federation, and also proposes an algorithm of actions to overcome the main barriers to improving the domestic system of MSW management.