In summarizing the latest initiatives in Russian waste management law, several key highlights should be mentioned. The law imposes additional responsibilities on manufacturers and importers of goods, the so-called producer's responsibility, which shall substantially affect their business activity and relevant costs planning. European companies are supposed to be familiar with the concept of producer's responsibility, which is an environmental policy approach designed to promote the integration of environmental costs associated with goods throughout their life cycles into the market price of the products. The environmental policy approach takes into account the needed environmental safeguards in the course of a product's design and shifts the responsibility for proper waste management or recycling to the producer and away from Russian municipalities. The law also imposes recycling obligations on manufacturers and importers of goods, which can be fulfilled by payment of environmental fee or by satisfying recycling requirements, as well as new requirements regulate solid municipal waste.
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