Impact of Solid Waste Disposal Places on the Value of the Region’s Natural Healing Assets

Waste is an objective consequence of human existence, which gives rise to many economic and environmental problems, but has significant resource potential. Despite the fact that the standards of the European Union and the Kyoto Protocol dictate requirements for reducing the number of landfills and their volumes, landfilling remains the most common method of solid waste disposal in Ukraine. Assessment of the impact of solid waste accumulation sites on the environment is a relevant task, the solution of which is important from the point of view of regulating the quality of the natural resource potential of territories and preserving the value of its components. The article systematizes the factors of the impact of solid waste landfills on the environment as potentially dangerous objects, the presence and operation of which negatively affects the sustainable development of regional socioeconomic systems and their ecological and economic safety. The regulatory framework for regulating issues of household waste management, including its disposal, is outlined. The reasons for the aggravation of the problem of waste accumulation in Ukraine and the Odessa region were analyzed. The processes occurring in the body of the landfill are considered, associated with the formation of chemical compounds that pollute atmospheric air, surface and groundwater, and soils, worsen the quality of life of the population, and cause climate change. The most harmful pollutants include landfill gas, dioxins, micro- and nanoplastics, leachate, heavy metals, pathogenic bacteria, etc. It is proposed to use a comprehensive assessment of the damage caused to society and the environment as a result of the operation of landfills, which involves determining ecological and economic damage as a combination of damage from anthropogenic pollution and commercial damage from the loss of resource-valuable fractions. The feasibility of determining the value of natural healing assets based on the rental approach, taking into account the complex ecological and economic damage from the disposal of solid household waste, is substantiated.