Sankt-Peterburg, Russian Federation
An irresponsible and irrational attitude to nature actualizes environmental issues in the development strategy of countries. Now, the environmental situation requires close attention, along with socio-economic and political tasks. Over time, new goals of technological development are achieved, which leave behind irreversible negative consequences that directly affect human life, flora and fauna of the natural world. This analytical work is aimed at studying the current problems of environmental safety that appear and will appear as a result of technological progress. The article characterizes the problems of environmental safety and presents planned and existing ways to overcome the consequences of human activity. The problems of lithium-ion battery production, the use of cars, toxic emissions from production and pollution by plastic waste are considered. Based on the identified problems, existing original ways to improve environmental safety are presented.
environmental safety, threat to environmental safety, environmental problems, non-standard methods of combatting pollution, plastic waste, green economy
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