A gestão de resíduos sólidos na estratégia de organizações industriais: estudo de caso na fabricação de embalagens metálicas

Abstract

This work sought to analyze the alignment between the approach to industrial solid waste management and the business strategy. To achieve the proposed objective, a review of the existing literature on corporate sustainability, sustainable value for stakeholders, social and environmental performance assessment and solid waste management was carried out. After reviewing the theoretical foundation, a field research was carried out in a Brazilian company in the industrial sector of metallic packaging manufacturing, with the specific objectives of: a) Describing the solid waste management from metallic packaging, identifying the solid waste, its source of generation, storage, collection and final disposal; b) Identify which practices are used for monitoring waste indicators; c) Understand the importance of solid waste management for sustainability and its stakeholders; d) understand the main challenges in solid waste management; and e) understand the relationship between business strategy and corporate sustainability. The study made it possible to observe, through interviews with managers and analysis of the sustainability report of the case company, the practical application and its obstacles to sustainability in the face of what is foreseen in the theoretical literature, in particular with regard to solid waste management, the definition of strategies based on current legislation and the role of business innovation in the sustainability strategy. This investigation is important for the advancement of management literature on solid waste management, given that Brazilian literature on environmental management and sustainability still has as its main focus studies on greenhouse gases and mitigation of global warming, and the inclusion of other environmental indicators such as consumption of fossil resources, energy consumption, use of raw materials and production and waste management strengthens the environmental analysis. The study makes it possible to understand the pratices already consolidated in the management of solid waste, providing evidence of good practices for companies that seek corporate sustainability.