The Electrical and Electronic Products Consumers’ Sustainable Behaviour in the Context of Consolidating Their Fundamental Rights
In recent years, the concern for durable electrical and electronic products as well as the recovery and recycling of electrical and electronic waste has increased, simultaneously with new initiatives aimed not only at protecting the environment, but ensuring consumer’s health, while consolidating...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Academy of Economic Studies of Bucharest
2023-02-01
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| Series: | Amfiteatru Economic |
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| Online Access: | https://www.amfiteatrueconomic.ro/temp/Article_3172.pdf |
| Summary: | In recent years, the concern for durable electrical and electronic products as well as the
recovery and recycling of electrical and electronic waste has increased, simultaneously with
new initiatives aimed not only at protecting the environment, but ensuring consumer’s health,
while consolidating their fundamental rights.
The research aims to identify the factors that influence the sustainable behaviour of the
Romanian consumer of electrical and electronic products. In this sense, the ecological
attitude, the purchasing behaviour of these goods, and also the recovery/recycling attitude of
electrical and electronic waste were taken into account. Data were collected through an online
questionnaire from 421 Romanian respondents and processed with the lavaan software
package version 0.6-12 of R for structural equation modelling.
The novelty of the article lies in how variables such as propensity to recover/recycle, tendency
of purchasing durable goods, ecological behaviour, are put in a new context, combining
environmental and consumers’ protection. The research makes theoretical contributions by
proposing and testing specific consumer protection constructs, which do not appear in the
literature. From the environmental public policies point of view, the work highlights the factors
that can contribute to the development of a responsible behaviour of both the population and
public authorities, to stimulate the purchase of sustainable goods, and to ensure an increase in
the collection rate of electrical and electronic products in Romania |
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| ISSN: | 1582-9146 2247-9104 |