A Influência do Gerenciamento de Resíduos Sólidos em um Processo Produtivo

Abstract

Currently, waste causes major environmental, social, and economic impacts due to increasing industrialization and population growth, which have increased the volume and types of waste generated. In Brazil, the National Policy on Industrial Solid Waste (PNRS), through Law 12,305/2010, defines solid waste management as a set of actions carried out, directly or indirectly, in the stages of collection, transport, transshipment, treatment, and environmentally appropriate disposal of solid waste. This study aimed to verify the application of PNRS goals regarding the reduction and reuse of solid waste generated at the stage of a production process in a company of the Manaus Industrial Pole (PIM). The method used was to evaluate improvement programs developed in-house that had a relationship with waste reduction and reuse. As a result, this study demonstrated that there was a reduction of 11.6 tons of steel per year, through the reuse of steel scrap in a stage of the process, which comes to mitigate the environmental impact on society.