Analysis of packaging and packaging waste management, in the context of sustainable development

• Author: L. Potincu/T. Foris/C. R. Potincu
• Position: Transilvania University of Brasov/Transilvania University of Brasov/Transilvania University of Brasov
• Pages: 155-164

Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Braşo v

Series VII: Social Sciences • Law • Vol. 11 (60) No. 2 - 2018

ANALYSIS OF PACKAGING AND PACKAGING

WASTE MANAGEMENT, IN THE CONTEXT OF

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

L. POȚINCU1 T. FORIȘ2 C. R. POȚINCU3

Abstract: Starting from the need for a sustainable development – meeting

the needs of the present times without compromising the possibility of the

future generations to meet their own needs – the aspects regarding the

packaging and packaging waste management are an active measure meant

to protect the natural environment. In this context, this work analyses the

latest legislative amendments to the law regarding packaging and

packaging waste management.

Key words: Sustainable development, packaging management, national

legislation for the protection of the natural environment.

1. Environmental Law and Sustainable Development

Ethically (Duțu, 2007, pp. 81-92), the environmental branch of law is defined as the

entirety of the juridical rules governing the joint patrimony of generations and

individuals, i.e. the current generations must leave for the future generations a (natural)

patrimony inherited in their turn from the past generations. The environmental

elements must sustainably be used and administered, while preserving their features.

Thus, sustainable development is the development that meets the requirements of

the present time, without compromising the possibility of the future generations to

satisfy their own necessities. (Governmental Emergency Ordinance no. 195/2005)

The aspects regarding packaging and packaging waste management are an active

measure for the protection of the natural environment. Thus, the business operators

involved in these activities of pollution decrease, shall act in a sustainable manner by

implementing the objectives of sustainable development.

It is important to reduce waste pollution as much as possible, in the context of the

juridical protection of the natural environment – regulated within environmental law –

and in the context of sustainable development. Practice and also the j uridical provisions

of natural environment protec tion consider the actual inability of completely eliminating

pollution.

1 Transilvania University of Braşov, laurapotincu@unitbv.ro

2 Transilvania University of Braşov, tiberiu.foris@unitbv.ro

3 Transilvania University of Braşov, cristipotincu@unitbv.ro