Raising Awareness on Waste Generation and Collection

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the population perception regarding the waste generation and the recycling ways in order to reduce the amount of generated waste (especially organic ones).Unfortunately, the reducing or minimizing of the amount of generated waste represents an issue to which, unfortunately, it's not still given its rightful importance and that is why it is needed to understand the factors and the procedures involved in this process.The study's objective is to understand the concept and behavior of the population about sustainable waste management.The study was conducted in two phases: development and implementation of a questionnaire with objective questions, the questionnaire was used to opinion poll for two groups of respondents. Collection and interpretation of data was performed by graphical and statistical methods.