Roteiro metodológico de tomada de decisões para o incremento do desempenho ambiental de lavanderias têxteis

Abstract

Organizations in textile sector need to be in a high productivity level and be updated, while this market is filled with environmental regulations due to its potential negative externalities generation. These issues make clear the need of a strategic management that aggregates the focus in results with respect to social needs and natural resources. One of the Brazil's major centers of production and sale of textile productions is located in the rural area of Pernambuco state, where the focus is production of jeans. There are several cities in this area in which economies are positively influenced by this production. However, there are many social and environmental problems related to the high consumption of water during the production process, the improper disposal of effluent into waterways and unhealthy working conditions to which workers are subjected. In this issue, this work aims to develop and apply a methodological decision-making guide that includes the diagnosis of environmental performance of textile laudries and suggestions of improvements to the production process, aligned to the business objectives to implement certifications or get into business indexes. For this, it was conducted a qualitative and quantitative research that allowed to understand the environmental management development level of companies' through the application of Environmental Management Performance Index (EMPI) and the proposition of a qualitative roadmap which aims to support a decision-making tool to increase the environmental management development, impacting the financial result in a compatible way with its context. This work was validated by the application of EMPI and of a methodological decisionmaking tool in two textile laundries of Pernambuco: Lavanderia Céu Azul and Lavanderia Mamute, and the both EMPI grades’ are in the middle level. Despite the similarity in the development indicator, the recommendations from the application of the decision-making tool was different: it is recommended to Lavanderia Céu Azul the implementation of Qual Seal Gold level and to Lavanderia Mamute the implementation of ISO 14001.