Desarrollo del Concepto de Consumo Responsable en los Estudiantes del Colegio de Administración Robert Owen de los grados 8ª, 9ª, 10ª y 11ª, Ubicado en la Localidad de Rafael Uribe Uribe de la Ciudad de Bogotá.

Abstract

In the late twentieth century consumption patterns they were closely linked to advertising and the creation of needs by companies to generate higher profits with products that ultimately were not needed for the consumer. Starting the XXI century the threat that warned of the planet by these caused many countries to think about changing these behaviors and make people be more reasonable when buying a product patterns, it is how in the last 20 years, many Asia, Western Europe and Latin America, countries and organizations (European Union-EU) and government agencies (Environmental Protection Agency US EPA) develop state policies today day and many programs that are related theme. According to the text of the national policy environment in Colombia, there is a global network of business centers that support a cleaner and responsible production today there are more than 43 countries within this network, the concept of eco-efficiency policy shown development of the European Union and countries such as South Korea along with the creation of technical assistance programs for businesses are generating cleaner production and sustainable consumption. In the last decade Colombia has also developed state policies that tend to seek sustainable production and consumption in a new document called the National Policy issued in 2010 by the Ministry of Environment, Housing and Territorial Development production can observe the guidelines and industry consumers should continue to have a responsible consumption