Gestão empresarial e ambiente: laticínios e resíduos

Abstract

The environment is an important aspect to industries, taken into consideration the damages caused by their production activities. From this point of view, the objective of the presented paper was to examine the management of enterprises, in relation to their strategy towards environmental damages. Legislation, economy, consumes and the community are putting pressure on the industries to face the pollution they cause, in an effort to preserve the environment. This study relates to the consequences of dairy organic pollution, due to improper milk processing, as well as pollution caused by its residues like cardboard packages used, for better preservation of quality and durability of the milk. With this objective in mind, a case study was carried out5 for two dairy industries of different sizes and at different locations. The conclusion was that the environment was disregarded by small and medium-size dairy industries, due to their struggle to survive. In this study, not only was examined the relation industry - supplier in an open market context, with the processing industry concentrated in large corporations. However, also the producers are facing difficulties with the trade of milk derived products due 'to the concentration of the retail market. However, it has been verified with the case study that there are companies with pro-active actions and with positive results in relation to the environmental issue.