A Conceptual Model for Sustainable Consumption

Abstract

To solve the more and more serious conflict between human society and environment, the traditional consumption style should be changed to a more sustainable style. The paper brings forward a conceptual model for sustainable consumption against the traditional style of consumption. The duration between natural material extracted from environment and emitted to environment again is divided into four phrases: extraction, manufacture, consumption, and recycle. The traditional style of consumption has another phrase that is waste. In the conceptual model we brought forward, there is no waste phrase which is replaced by a helical consumption style