Digital Transformation in the Field of Consumer Waste Management: Theoretical and Legal Aspects

The field of consumer waste management is one of the most relevant areas of state environmental policy, which is actively developing through the introduction of modern innovative digital technologies. In turn, digital technologies contribute to the formation of a new condition for ensuring access to environmental information in the field of consumer waste management — the digital space. In this regard, the task of digital transformation in the environmental sphere established by strategic planning documents has given rise to many controversial issues both at the doctrinal and legislative levels. In order to fill the gaps that have arisen in the legal field, it is proposed to conduct a study of digital transformation in the field of consumer waste management through the prism of a scientific approach that is new today for theoretical understanding, namely legal diffusion. The paper reveals the fundamental principles contributing to legal diffusion. The real and potential consequences of applying this scientific approach are shown. A new promising paradigm for perceiving the conditions of interaction between participants in legal relations to ensure access to environmental information in the field of consumer waste management has been identified, namely transparency.