Good Practices of Efficient Packaging Waste Management

Teodor, Cristian; Trică, Carmen Lenuţa; Ignat, Raluca; Dracea, Raluca-Mihaela

doi:10.24818/ea/2020/55/937

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“…The topics tackled within the studies and research concern the issue of the circular economy in Romania highlights the conducting of national-level research related to the development of the circular economy under the new sustainability paradigm [58], brings up the best circular economy initiatives in Romania [78,79], and analyses the sustainability of circular economy indicators at EU level [52,53]. Joining these approaches are a series of studies tackling the circular economy at regional/local levels [80][81][82] or sector/economic activity levels [83,84], or areas of the circular economy such as waste management [84,85].…”

Section: Approaches To Circular Economy In the Romanian Specialised L...mentioning

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Romania’s Perspectives on the Transition to the Circular Economy in an EU Context

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The main objective of the paper is to highlight Romania’s perspectives on the transition process towards the circular economy, in respect with the tendencies registered at the level of the European Union. To this end, our methodology involved the selection of four indicators, each one being viewed as representative for one area of interest specified in the circular economy monitoring framework established by the European Commission, namely: Generation of waste excluding major mineral wastes per domestic material consumption; Recycling rate of municipal waste; Circular material use rate; Gross investment in tangible goods—percentage of gross domestic product. On the basis of data series provided by the Eurostat database, our study employed a quantitative approach, by using the econometric analysis of time series. For each selected indicator, time series-specific approximation and prediction models were constructed; against this background, we were able to reveal accurate forecasts of the analysed variables, with respect to different time horizons. Detailed analysis of the data series resulting from the research proved that on the long run, there are favourable premises for improving Romania’s performance in adopting the circular economic model, on the basis of low values for the indicator “Generation of waste excluding major mineral wastes per domestic material consumption”, of an ascending trend for the indicator ”Circular material use rate” and of maintaining the values of the “Gross investment in tangible goods—percentage of gross domestic product” indicator above the EU-27 average.

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“…In order to achieve the objectives and targets regarding the amount of selectively collected waste, in Romania, there was and still is necessary to have a coherent and sustainable legislation, which will lead to, besides the elimination of these environmental pollution factors, to the recycling and reuse of an important part of the waste, as raw or secondary materials ( Mihai, 2018 ; Teodor et al, 2020 ).…”

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Environmental Problems: An Analysis of Students’ Perceptions Towards Selective Waste Collection

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The reduction, reuse, collection and recovery of recyclable materials are sustainable behaviors and people’s awareness of them plays an important role in implementing strategies and policies in this field. The quantitative analysis performed on a group of 816 students of Politehnica University of Timisoara, aimed at finding answers to important environmental concerns and observing the students’ behaviors of reuse and selective collection of the waste resulted from plastic containers, paper, aluminum, batteries, iron packaging waste, electronic equipment, used cooking oil and printer toner. The research has shown that ‘increased amounts of waste’ (63.5%) is among the first three concerns Romania has to deal with, besides ‘air pollution’ (67.9%) and ‘deforestation’ (63.7%). Moreover, the study highlights the existence of the behavior toward the selective waste collection among students (plastic – 60.3%, paper – 57.8%, and glass – 55.3%). although there are some areas (e.g., selectively collecting used cooking oil or printer toner, their level of knowledge regarding the color code for the recycling bins, etc.) that students still need to be familiarized with through different campaigns, trainings, courses, etc. The results can be used in the development of institutional strategies or of strategic documents targeting environmental protection and sustainable development.

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“…For that, Thormann et al (2021) provided methodological instruments in order for the public policy to reduce challenges met in circular economy and the period of transition to climateneutral. Biofuel advantage (Mungodla et al, 2019), municipal waste smart management (Banacu et al, 2019) and packaging integrated solutions, in general (Teodor et al, 2020) may be directions for a low-carbon economy and circular economy real function. Although, energetic efficiency is aimed by all countries and regions , nevertheless companies and organizations targeting resilience and performance (Ignat & Constantin, 2020), the solutions are no longer in the conventional practice, but in innovative perspectives, such as bioeconomy modelling (Biljuš & .…”

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Tackling market opportunities for the biomass production in Romania

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Proceedings of the International Conference on Business Excellence

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The European Green Deal sets out a detailed vision for Europe to become a climate-neutral continent by 2050 by providing clean, secure, and affordable energy. Thus, with the aim of providing a market-oriented perspective on the economic potential of biomass-related activities, several data were analyzed in this research paper. The positive impact of the green transition is necessary to be studied both at macroeconomic and microeconomic levels. In this context, the research question addressed was: What is the impact of the green transition on farms’ performance and national economy? A descriptive statistical analysis was carried out in order to prove the importance of specific crops, taking into consideration the movements in the energy market and the farmer’s constraints in the era of the European Green Deal. The main objective of this research was to determine if biomass is one of the optimal solutions able to gather all these European desiderates. This conference paper identifies the best scenario for an agricultural farm using diversification activities and the macroeconomic impact of the biomass crops. Currently, the European context is the most favorable for resorting to biomass crops, especially if considering the recent global energy market dynamics. Additionally, there is a need for activities diversification at the farm level in order for them to become greener and to boost their socio-economic and environmental performance. Results confirm that there is considerable economic potential for biomass production in Romania. The added value of the paper is provided by both microeconomic and macroeconomic approaches.

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Good Practices of Efficient Packaging Waste Management

Cited by 8 publications

References 4 publications

Romania’s Perspectives on the Transition to the Circular Economy in an EU Context

Romania’s Perspectives on the Transition to the Circular Economy in an EU Context

Environmental Problems: An Analysis of Students’ Perceptions Towards Selective Waste Collection

Tackling market opportunities for the biomass production in Romania

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