Application of the environmental management system in minimizing the environmental impacts generated by a poultry slaughter agroindustry

Abstract

The article highlights the environmental impacts caused and maximized by the absence of an environmental management system, considering the high industrialization of birds in the south and southeast of Brazil. What results in a wrong targeting of liquid and solid waste, increasing the occurrence of negative environmental impacts. The tool that assesses and controls environmental impacts is the Environmental Management System (SGA), this study aimed to apply the SGA in the assessment and minimization of environmental impacts generated by a chicken slaughtering agroindustry located in the west of Santa Catarina. Data collection enabled a diagnosis of the situation of the agribusiness at the beginning of the research, considering the impacts on the physical, biological and socioeconomic environment of the areas of direct and indirect influence and the characterization of the local vegetation cover. The system proved to be a technically viable tool, prioritizing the main environmental problems present, analyzing the entire production process of the agribusiness and identifying all points that should be improved to reduce environmental impacts, including liquid and solid waste.