Topical issues of ensuring the environmental safety of the country through the tools of return logistics
Abstract. The environment, a necessary habitat for all living beings in nature, has become one of the important issues on the agenda since the 1970s and has been discussed in the context of security, especially in combination with globalization, which quickly felt its impact after the Cold War. The rapid growth of the world`s population, in parallel with the increase in the consumption growth, causes a rapid reduction in available resources. The relevance of the presented work is obvious, because there is an objective threat to the future of humanity caused by the fact that the main resources for high-quality human life are quite limited and subject to exhaustion. The rapid development of cities, industries and the scientific and technological progress over the past decade has created prerequisites for the emergence of various environmental threats. The growth of consumption and industrial production has led to a significant burden on the environment in terms of increased production waste generation. The target orientation in this study is based on the analysis of theoretical aspects and some empirical factors and prospects for the development of a system of implementation of return logistics to ensure the environmental safety of regions and the country as a whole. The factography of the study is based on the reporting data of analytical agencies presented in the public domain. The research methods include general scientific and empirical methods of economics based on systematic and interdisciplinary approaches. As a result an effective system of return logistics and recycling was presented in the conditions of the resource exhaustion and the relevance of environmental conservation.
Keywords: logistics, return flows, system, ecology, safety, development, industry, region, economy, environment
Highlights:
♦ the paper substantiates the authors` position in relation to the growth of consumption in our society, and, accordingly, the formation of industrial and household waste, with limited resources, the expediency of developing comprehensive measures to implement possibilities of using a waste recycling system based on logistics management of return flows is actualized;
♦ the relevance of the study is due to the analysis of theoretical and empirical aspects of sustainable environmental security in the country and regions and the development of scientific and practical recommendations for the logistics of the return flow system in the circular economy;
♦ the authors conclude that in the country`s environmental safety management system, a significant role is played by the state policy and the direct support for the development of clusterization in this area through the implementation of the concept of return logistics, including on the basis of public-private partnership.
Sevak G. Khalatyan, Olesya N. Boyko - Rostov State University of Economics, Rostov-on-Don, Russia