[Present-day hygienic aspects of dealing with industrial and consumption waste]

The article covers scientific hygienic positions in forming and solving the acute scientific and technical problem of dealing with waste. The given problem is topical due to growing amount and diversity of waste and relatively small knowledge of ecological, medical and biological aspects of the problem. The paper covers the entire "life cycle" of waste, chiefly industrial and communal, as the most diverse and potentially dangerous to the environment. Special attention is paid to neutralization and recycling of waste for its application as secondary material in various branches of national economy. Having critically analized the results of complex studies, the authors conclude the article with outlining the prospective tasks of research for scientific and practical institutions of sanitary surveillance of Russian Federation Ministry of Health.