Logística reversa e sustentabilidade empresarial: um estudo de caso na Fábrica de Móveis Albuquerque - município de Parintins/AM

Abstract

For a long time, man has been degrading nature, due to the inadequate disposal of solid waste, which already shows an almost irreversible environmental imbalance. Because of this problem, it is necessary to approach Reverse Logistics and Business Sustainability, which proposes a new business paradigm, since it promotes sustainable development in addition to favoring economic and social gains. Thus, the article has as object of study the Móveis Albuquerque Factory, because it worries to reuse the solid waste, avoiding its destiny directly in the nature. In this sense the general objective of this work was to know Reserve Logistics and Corporate Sustainability in the factory. Its specific objectives are to identify the application of the reverse logistic process in the reduction of costs and finally to show the points that positively and negatively impact the practice of the reverse logistic process of solid waste. To develop this article, a case study was carried out, with a deductive method and a qualitative approach of exploratory and descriptive character. The techniques used were: informal interview, field research and questionnaire application. The main authors used for the theoretical basis of this research were: Ballou (2006), Leite (2005), Resende (2004), Valle e Souza (2014), Zamboni e Ricco (2009).