Problems and perspectives of development of complex of collection and transportation of municipal solid waste in Saint-Petersburg

Abstract

For today there is a number of undecided issues on collection and transportation of waste in
Saint-Petersburg and North-Western Region of Russian Federation, For modernization of a
whole cycle of waste handling from the stages of collection, sorting and transportation till
waste treatment, storage and burial, it has been conducted by enterprises and scientists of
Saint-Petersburg a range of works directed to raising efficiency of these processes and
modernization of existing equipment When developing sorting refuse at the reloading
stations, in particular it is planned to switch from primitive manual sorting to mechanic tools.
There are being carried out the works on improving and development of new machinery and
containers, in particular on designing new types of containers (compactors), on equipping
transport by navigation systems etc. Now there is being created at the enterprise "Spetstrans"
the car for service of Saint-Petersburg Center as a district of low buildings. The special
attention by the specialists of motor transportation enterprises No 1 and No6 is paid to tum to
double-stage method of waste removal with using waste reloading stations, to designing
various technological equipment for compacting and pressing waste. And it is very important
because through reloading stations passes up till 50% of registered waste general volume.
There are established 16 presses with compression coefficient from 4 till 8 at the reloading
stations. So, the enterprises are interested themselves in raising manufacturability of process,
development of new mechanisms and equipment, in introducing of computers and automated
systems to the process because a concurrence for waste treatment is raised lately. This fact is
necessary to take into account when planning the capacities designed for construction in the
planned period.
This presentation is just devoted to analysis of enumerated problems and ways of their
solving.