Professional Requalification Program for the Specialists in the Field of Waste Management

The increased level of environmental pollution due to different kinds of waste, unauthorized landfills and the lack of counting and monitoring of the territories ecological conditions are problems faced by all mega-cities around the world. Nowadays, in the Russian Federation there is no system of preparing specialists in the field of waste management, which indicates the need for creating requalification program for specialists in this field. The article describes an additional professional requalification program developed at Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University - "Environmental economics and waste management".