Ways of Arising of Public Awareness and Educational Level in Solid Waste Management Sphere of St. Petersburg

Abstract

Whereas solid waste products influence deterioration of the environment and reduce quality of human life, intensification of activity on creation the effective solid waste management (SWM) system is necessary. In the usual conditions of management there is a necessity of application of the integrated approach allowing comprehensively to evaluate usual situation in the sphere of SWM and to find the most rational solutions. It demands significant improvement of the system of education, training and improvement of professional skill of technicians and managers for the given sphere. Use of experience of the Nordic countries in the field of scientific and practical researches on the given problem and in the organization of education and training specialists, will assist to the achievement of the object and solving the connected problems.

For Elaborating of Educational course on Solid Waste Management for students of Saint Petersburg State University of Engineering and Economics the following methods was used:
- Revealing of problems in the SWM sphere in St Petersburg – organizational, legislative, technical, technological, psychological, informational, educational and environmental;
- Studying of the experience of the organizational charts for the SWM in big and small citiesof adjacent Nordic countries, realization of the SWOT-analysis and benchmarking of
operating of these systems;
- Development of measures on improving organizational, economic and legal principles of SWM, on stimulation of innovation activity for attraction modern engineering and
technologies, and also on radical improvement of education and training for improving professional skill of personnel for this sector of economy.