Análise dos requisitos organizacionais para a avaliação do ciclo de vida (ACV) de produtos madeireiros

Abstract

As the environmental concern raises society and client are more demanding related to environment. This makes industrial organizations focus their effort in order to adapt their processes trying to decrease or eliminate negative environmental impacts. From these efforts appeared several managerial tools to optimize residual emission and environmental impacts, aiming sustainable development. The structure of these tools is called Environmental Management System, which standard and rules are stablished through ISO 14001. By means of ISO 14040, ISO also supplies a accepted structure to undertake LCA, Life Cycle Assestment, an environmental manager tool to identify and evaluate the whole production cycle, from the extraction of raw material to the disposition of the product and its return to the environment. However, because of the amount of necessary data to undertake a LCA study, many companies are not ready to use it. This work analyzed the organizacional requirements to evaluate the product life cycle, in order to point the necessary input and output data of productive process in a medium wood company, in Ponta Grossa - PR. For this, it was necessary to identify inputs and outputs in qualitative and quantitative ways. Data were raised through forms, interviews and direct observations, what made possible to see that the studied company has difficulty to monitor the impacts of their processes when it comes to financial losses at manufacturing the product. The research followed the process according to the directions of ISO 14040, and it shows the details of the rule as a support for decision taking in order to improve the processes, products and in the preservation of environment.