The Need and Prospects for the Creation of a National Exchange of Secondary Resources

Abstract

The problem of utilization firm municipal and municipal solid waste (and MSW) and rational use of secondary raw material resources in the conditions of the outlined transition to economy of the closed cycle is considered. The analysis of this problem made it possible to identify the insufficiency of currently used measures, including market instruments that stimulate the use of more effective methods of waste processing. The need to create a national exchange of secondary resources as a promising trading platform, an instrument for market regulation of prices for secondary raw materials, a mechanism of interaction between authorities, the business sector and the population is justified. The main functions of the secondary resource exchange and its advantages are described, an analysis of the likely barriers to its creation and highly efficient functioning is carried out.