IDENTIFICATION OF OBJECTS OF ACCUMULATED ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE BASED ON PRIMARY INDICATIVE SIGNS OF DEGRADATION OF UNDERGROUND SPACE

Abstract

Disposal of waste in the soil is one of the most common ways to neutralize it. However, this entails significant risksto the environment, leading to the appearance of objects of accumulated environmental damage (AED). Despite the efforts made bythe state (separate collection, prohibition of disposal of certain types of waste, etc.), it must be recognized that minimizing environmental damage associated with waste is only possible with an integrated approach to solving the problem. The objects of disposal orwaste treatment are often formed as natural-and-technical systems that ensure environmental safety, having a number of distinctivefeatures of their targeted exploitation. The life cycle of such natural-and-technical systems is determined by the time frame of exploitation or the volume of deposited waste, and therefore, systems of this type realize and exhaust their resource as accumulative systems(of collection / storage / disposal) of waste. The results of the study and systematization of geoecological factors of AED made itpossible to formulate in the paper 5 primary indicative signs of degradation of territories and underground space caused by various types of AED. Comparison of AED objects by similarity (pollution) criterion based on binomial distribution shows that even whendepositing the same type of waste, there are no pronounced factors of similarity in pollution between objects: firstly, concentrationvalues may differ by an order of magnitude, secondly, external conditions and similarity of composition in polluting componentscharacterizing the operation of specific facilities may vary significantly – and therefore, primary inventory of AED factors can lead toerroneous results on which further work on the elimination of AED will depend, including an increase in the volume of work and thecost of reclamation.