Self-Disposal of Waste: Threats to the Environment as a Result of Legal Uncertainty

The article is devoted to the study of the legal issues of the implementation of the norms providing for the rules of self-disposal of waste from the standpoint of differentiation of legal regimes of activities in the field of independent waste disposal and processing of by-products of production. The existing legal uncertainty in the legislation on the issue of signs of by-products of production, the uncertainty about the legal difference between these objects and “secondary resources” and waste subject to mandatory disposal, gives rise to new threats of harm to the environment due to the growing negative processes associated with the increase in the number of unauthorized landfills. The author proposes to specify the concept of “by-products” in order to improve the legal regime of self-disposal of waste.