Ecology-oriented social entrepreneurship: Analysis of waste management legal regulation in Russia

Abstract

The article deals with the main issues of municipal and industrial waste management legal regulation. The authors substantiate the idea that waste management entrepreneurs are environmental entrepreneurs, which in turn belong to social entrepreneurship. The relevance of legal research on the regulation of environmental-oriented social entrepreneurship lies in the fact that the system of legal regulation of environmental entrepreneurship has not been formed. Moreover, environmental entrepreneurship is not classified as social entrepreneurship. The purpose of the article is to substantiate the concept according to which entrepreneurial activity in the field of waste recycling and environmental protection should be considered through the prism of social entrepreneurship. The leading approach is dialectics, analysis, synthesis, deduction, formal legal method and comparative legal method. Conclusions: The performed analysis can contribute to the creation of developed environmental-entrepreneurial relations in Russia, which is achieved by building a verified conceptual and categorical apparatus, defining a model of legal regulation. Legislative regulation related to waste management is new, unsystematic, declarative and sometimes contradictory. To implement an effective waste management system, it is necessary to create an open and understandable waste management system, where citizens, legal entities and government bodies will be involved and motivated for its implementation. It is required to exclude the creation of intermediate links, such as regional operators, since their existence only causes a negative reaction from society. Acknowledgments: The reported study was funded by RFBR, project number 20-011-00222.