Desempenho ambiental: estudo de caso em uma indústria gráfica

Abstract

The concerning of the companies with the preservation of environment has increased significantly in the last years due to several requirements as: law demandings, sustainable development, protection to the internal market and also consumers more and more demanding. The environmental issues have been prevailing in the making-decision strategies in the technical, technological and industrial areas. In this context, the companies need to identify the waste produced in their own processes, qualify them according to their degrees of risk and environmental contamination, transport and give them an adequate destination. Whenever it is possible, recycle and reduce their waste, eliminating and registering what happens with it and if it weren´t properly issued; an environmental management police which ensures an adequate way of working and acting must be set. This study aimed to suggest improvement actions in the environmental performance in a printing plant assuring the correct destination of the waste material produced by it without damaging the environment. It was observed that there are especially three types of waste material: air emissions, resulting from water steam and other volatile substances; liquid effluents as dissolved substances in water or in other solvents; solid waste, mainly discharged packing, cans of paint and paper parings and sheets. In sum, the company must develop actions in order to improve its environmental performance by adopting a program which, besides reducing its waste material, also aims the correct destination of it in order to not damage the environment