HOW COULD BE COMBINED THE SUBJECTIVITY AND DINAMISM TO GIVE THE WORLD A COMPREHENSIVE DEFINITION OF WASTE?

Stefan Burcea

No 28, Proceedings of the Fifth "Administration and Public Management" International Conference: "Public Institutions' Capacity to Implement the Administrative Reform Process", Bucharest, June 23-24, 2009 from Research Centre in Public Administration and Public Services, Bucharest, Romania

Abstract: Given the problems that can occur due to incorrect use of basic concepts and risks that may apear because of differences in present points of view concerning the content of the waste concept was considered necessary to study the main definitions currently used and attempt to provide to the specific literature an own definition of waste wicth we tkink will become widely accepted in the theoreticians and practitioners community of waste management issue. In our attempt to completely and accurately define waste and to eliminate the possibility of concept subiectivitz the working paper starts from identification and interpretation of two essential perspectives of the transforming goods into waste process. Throughtout an elementary logical based system of arguments the author comments various perspectives and approaches captured both in literature and the contents of official documents. Appealing to a cause-based argumentation, but not the effects, its identify core issues that cause waste generation, loss of goods utility, achieve the purpose for which they were created, the occurrence of user intention to dispose the products become unnecessary, incidence of responsibility and ownership dynamics. And finally it formulates a comprehensive definition of waste.

Keywords: Waste definition; goods utility; ownership relations; waste generation; waste disposal (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q53 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Published in the Proceedings of the Fifth Administration and Public Management International Conference. Public institutions’ capacity to implement the administrative reform process , Bucharest, June 23-24 2009, pages 280-289

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