Legal support and practice of environmentally sound waste management in the field of railway transport

The activity of railway transport is accompanied by the formation of a large amount of waste of various hazard classes, which are sources of negative impact on the environment. In this regard, ensuring the environmentally sound management of production and consumption waste is a task and one of the main directions of corporate environmental policy and management in the field of railway transport. The article describes and justifies the need to take into account the specifics of the types of waste in railway transport, the degree of their impact on the environment, depending on the hazard class in the organization and implementation of activities in railway transport, including rail transportation of waste, including hazardous waste. As a result of the analysis of industry documents defining environmental policy in the railway sector, including waste management, as well as practical experience in implementing the best available technologies (BAT) at Russian Railways, the positive dynamics of achieving national goals and objectives in the field of waste management, reducing the volume of their formation, disposal and burial, increasing recycling and reuse during the transition to a closed-loop economy. The existing legal problems are highlighted, the solution of which is necessary to improve legal support and improve the efficiency of waste management in railway transport. The interdisciplinary approach, the method of systematic analysis of statistical data, strategic planning documents, as well as the provisions of the concept of sustainable development were used as the methodological basis of the study. Their application made it possible to provide an objective assessment of strategic planning, management and legal support for waste management in the field of railway transport, as well as to substantiate proposals for their optimization. The results include conclusions and proposals for improving transport legislation; ensuring consistency and correlation of railway industry strategies, including provisions on waste management, with strategic planning documents in environmental, transport, innovation, investment and other areas.; about the need to take into account the specifics of waste types and the specifics of the stages of their handling in railway transport in standards, other technical regulation documents, regulatory and technical documents, reference books of the best available technologies, recommendations in the field under study.