Post-Consumer Waste: Challenges, Trends and Solutions

Corina Ene
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Corina Ene: Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiesti, Ploiesti, Romania

International Journal of Sustainable Economies Management (IJSEM), 2013, vol. 2, issue 3, 19-31

Abstract: The complexity of purchase decision process goes beyond economic and human rationality boundaries, leading to increased amounts spent inappropriately, including, implicitly, significant quantities of post-consumer waste. Excessive waste of resources, reflected in massive quantities of abandoned goods on the one hand, and on the other - insufficient access to resources for a significant part of the world population - are topical issues that are based on overall irrational behavior of consumers and society, requiring global and local optimization by strategies involving all interested parties. The paper aims to formulate and emphasize actual problems and prospects regarding the rationality of consumer behavior towards waste creating and disposal, trying to answer the following question: given that the actual society is facing a series of irreversible ecological problems, what needs to be done in order to reduce post consumer-waste and to promote environmentally and resources friendly behaviors?

Date: 2013
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