MINIMIZATION OF POTENTIAL ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARD IN WASTE DISPOSAL MANAGEMENT
A methodological approach to the problem of minimization of the human activities impact on the environment is proposed. It shows, based on examples of actual waste disposal sites, the possibilities for development of integral index of ecological hazard from the initial indicators using different methods for normalization and aggregation with subsequent comparison of their informational quality. Results of the computations proved legitimacy of selection of the initial indicators, thresholds and procedures for development of the summary index of potential environmental hazard. It is proposed to use the value of this index to minimize the potential environmental hazard due to municipal locality waste disposal by choosing landfills between a few operated disposal landfills that are considerably different from each other in terms of values of the initial indicators and the summary indices.