Logística reversa: prática, preservação e controle dos metais no município de Bacabal- MA

Abstract

The incorrect disposal of solid waste is a problem to be faced by many municipalities, the amount of waste in urban areas is frightening, mainly due to the environmental problems that its disposal causes. This framework also serves as an economic solution for thousands of people who find themselves in these territories without space in the labor market, who have in the collection of solid waste through the reverse logistics process a means of obtaining income in an autonomous or informal way. Reverse logistics covers the entire role of direct logistics from planning to distribution, with the difference that its role is reversed from the point of consumption to its final destination, returning to the point of origin (distributor) or place of reuse. In this context, the present work aims to analyze how reverse logistics management occurs with regard to metals aimed at enterprises that work with this area in the municipality of Bacabal - MA, as well as its impacts and significant aspects for the reduction of these residues in the environment. and which is relevant given the need to seek improvements, aiming at alignment with the National Solid Waste Policy (PNRS), sanctioned by Federal Government Law No. 12305/2010, where it is the duty of companies to acquire changes in the environmental issue, to be adapt to this market that emerged with the proposal for the implementation of waste management. Being a necessary reality for contemporaneity. This is a descriptive exploratory work with qualitative and quantitative approaches based on interviews and conversations with five companies and a cooperative from Bacabal - Ma semi-structures with metal pickers, combined with field observation throughout the work. Environmental education and awareness was seen as a fundamental point for a better performance of reverse logistics, which, only with companies, citizens and public agencies committed to giving the proper destination to these residues (metals) providing an ecologically correct cycle, seeking to mitigate the damages to health and the environment, in addition to obtaining satisfactory profits for those involved