Descripción y análisis de perfiles de consumo responsable en estudiantes de Ingeniería Industrial

Abstract

Goal 12 of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) seeks to ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns through a strategy to promote, among other factors, the rationaland efficient use of resources and energy, seeking to impact on the improvement of conditions thatdetermine the quality of life of people and the minimization of the environmental, social and economicimpacts of human activities. Being food a key factor in generating strategies that favor the fulfillment ofthis objective given its impact on agricultural, livestock and industrial production, With the purposeof identifying alternatives for reducing these impacts and generating sustainable practices, this work seeksto analyze the patterns of food consumption in the phases of acquisition, use and disposal of waste inIndustrial Engineering students of the Universidad del Atlántico (Barranquilla Colombia). This researchwas done using the cube model, developed by the technical institute of Berlin, focused on the identificationand promotion of behaviors aimed at sustainable consumption in addition to the recognition of&nbsp, the impact they have on the environment and society in general. The research allowed the identification of three consumption profiles, all of them influenced mainly by socio-economic conditions and derived from the context and reality of the infrastructure and the social and cultural environment of the students.