Increasing production efficiency through increased use of secondary resources in enterprises of St.Petersburg

Waste recycling is a highly relevant today direction, allowing not only to solve environmental problems, but also opens up new opportunities for resource industries. Apart from the obvious economic, social and environmental benefits of re-use of resources accompanied by many problems. The paper considers ways to improve the efficiency and attractiveness for business recycling activities, as well as measures to improve products and production technology aimed on the one hand to reduce production losses, on the other hand – by the increased use of industrial waste in production.