• Anupam Sarkar
• Ashish Choudoury
• Safina Dhiman

We are moving towards an age of abundance. Through increasingly intelligent automation of production there has been a drastic reduction in prices of goods and services. This technological change has brought with it a change in perception of human needs. Where reusability was the mantra for the past few decades, this has now been replaced with the ideology of disposing off unusable products and purchasing new ones. Even though there has been lot of capital invested in improving the efficiency of production, resources have been rarely allocated towards handling disposability and analysing its impact on the environment. Even though the solutions for handling environmental issues have been mostly technological we propose that through radical change in human perception and behaviour, we can efficiently handle the rate at which the resources are being utilised. This paper discusses how this change in human values due to abundance and automation is impacting the planet with limited resources, how current technologies address disposability issues and how innovation can lead to smoother transitions in human behaviour.

Human behaviour”, “disposability”, “abundance”, “sustainable innovation”, “product life cycle”

"Product disposability and its impact on human behaviour for sustainable development", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 10, page no.258-261, October-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1810820.pdf

"Product disposability and its impact on human behaviour for sustainable development", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 10, page no. pp258-261, October-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1810820.pdf