Reflections on conscious consumption targeted towards sustainable development

Abstract

Face the consumption slowed in today's world, the environmental balance vis-à-vis the modern consumer is a concern. Knowing the exact weighting between social and environmental principles and the affections to sustainable development is the great challenge for recognising increasingly needs a post-consumer accountability. Sustainable logistics comes as an alternative to this impasse through conscious consumption, which makes a cycle of production, consumption, disposal, recycling. In this sense, environmental awareness, instruments with public policies, and the insertion of the whole collectivity, the purpose of ensuring quality of life for future generations.