Legislation of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus in the Field of Waste Management: Comparative Legal Aspects

An urgent area of interstate cooperation between the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus is integration projects implemented within the framework of the Union State, focused on environmental protection and rational use of natural resources. The field of waste management of production and consumption belongs to the trend areas of modern state environmental policy. The harmonization of waste legislation contributes to the achievement of strategic goals and the implementation of correlated tasks in the field of waste management in the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus. The article highlights the main strategic planning documents in the field of production and consumption waste management in the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus. The analysis of the main legal concepts in the field of waste management, such as: «waste», «waste of production and consumption», «waste of production», «waste of consumption», «waste management», provided for by Russian and Belarusian legislation. The features of the conceptual apparatus affecting the legal regulation of relations in the field of waste management are highlighted.