de Sousa Fabiula Danielli Bastos
Technology Development Center, Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Rua Gomes Carneiro, 1, 96010-610 Pelotas, RS Brazil.
Center of Engineering, Modeling and Applied Social Science, Universidade Federal do ABC, Avenida dos Estados, 5001, 09210-580 SP Santo André, Brazil.
Circ Econ Sustain. 2023 Mar 25:1-25. doi: 10.1007/s43615-023-00263-4.
Plastic makes our society more practical and safer. It is hard to consider eliminating plastic in some sectors, such as the medical field. However, after use, plastic waste becomes a global problem without precedents, and when not properly disposed of, it can cause several socio-environmental problems. Some possible solutions are recycling, the circular economy, proper waste management, and consumer awareness. Consumers play a crucial role in preventing problems caused by plastic. In this work, consumer awareness of plastic is discussed according to the point of view of the research areas-environmental science, engineering, and materials science-based on the analysis of the main authors' keywords obtained in a literature search in the Scopus database. Bibliometrix analyzed the Scopus search results. The results showed that each area presents different concerns and priorities. The current scenario, including the main hotspots, trends, emerging topics, and deficiencies, was obtained. On the contrary, the concerns from the literature and those of the daily lives of consumers do not seem to fit in, which creates a gap. By reducing this gap, the distance between consumers awareness and their behavior will be smaller.
塑料使我们的社会更具实用性和安全性。在某些领域，比如医疗领域，很难考虑消除塑料的使用。然而，塑料废弃物在使用后却成为了一个前所未有的全球性问题，若处置不当，会引发若干社会环境问题。一些可行的解决办法包括回收利用、循环经济、妥善的废物管理以及提高消费者意识。消费者在预防塑料引发的问题方面发挥着关键作用。在这项研究中，基于对在Scopus数据库文献检索中获取的主要作者关键词的分析，从环境科学、工程学和材料科学等研究领域的角度探讨了消费者对塑料的认知。Bibliometrix对Scopus的搜索结果进行了分析。结果表明，每个领域都呈现出不同的关注点和优先事项。由此得出了当前的情形，包括主要热点、趋势、新兴话题及不足之处。相反，文献中的关注点与消费者日常生活中的关注点似乎并不契合，这就产生了差距。通过缩小这一差距，消费者认知与行为之间的距离将会变小。
