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Technology and Engineering
- ISSN: 2333-2581
- Modern Environmental Science and Engineering
Corporate Socio-Environmental Responsibility Integrated to Cleaner Production: Case Study in Industry in Recife, Brazil
Yenê Medeiros Paz, Natália de Souza Cavalcanti, Carlos Murilo de Melo Filho, Maria Monize de Morais,
Romildo Morant de Holanda and Soraya Giovanetti El-Deir
Rural Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil
Abstract: Organizations are increasingly aligned with consumer demands. These demands are propelling companies to guiding its processes under the basis of sustainability, unbridled advances of economy have strong impact over society and, due to this, the population has positioned itself against organizations and local governance in order to have responses that contribute positively to social, environmental and economic issues. A corporate socio-environmental responsibility refers to a business approach that aims to attain sustainability throughout its supply chain, from suppliers, customers, employees and how they relate to the environment. This can be aligned to the principles of Cleaner Production (CP) if the organization has some integrated action in the company; CP is intended to make a complex analysis of the production process in order to increase efficiency. The aim of this paper is to describe actions of socio-environmental responsibility and verify their alignment regarding to principles of Cleaner Production in the productive sector organizations, employing as a case study a chemical industry in the sector of cleaning and hygiene located in the
city of Recife-PE, here regarded as Industry X.
Key words: socio-environmental responsibility, cleaner production, industry, sustainability
