Modelo de gestão ambiental para empresa de transporte coletivo urbano

Abstract

The economic development is necessary so that the longed for material necessities for the conquest of one better quality of life are taken care of. In consequence, this development can come folloied of a series of pollutants, residues and impacts to the environment that must be object of concern in the direction of if finding a harmony between development and ambient preservation. Nowadays, the strategical planning of the companies has also contemplated the ambient questions, mainly aiming at to preserve its image and the reduction of costs. For the attainment of these results one of the adopted forms it is the implementation of systems of ambient management, being that it enters its benefits can be cited the reduction of costs through the identification of wastefulnesses and the incentive to the rational use of the natural resources. The sector of rendering of services, in special the urban collective transport deserves special attention, therefore it is about a very expressive segment in terms of ambient management, function of the natural resources that it uses in the development of its activities and for the residues that generate. This work is directed to the development of a model of ambient management for company of the sector of urban collective transport, being based on data collected in a company of the sector, in the city of Santa Maria/RS.