Este trabalho objetivou verificar como as atividades de reciclagem impactam nas áreas de saúde, segurança e meio ambiente, levantando também algumas questões relacionadas com a responsabilidade social, com destaque para o atendimento às normas regulamentadoras, legislação de saúde, segurança e meio ambiente aplicáveis. O questionário elaborado foi aplicado diretamente a um grupo de recicladoras, todas situadas no estado do Rio de Janeiro, sendo três do segmento de polietileno e uma de politereftalato de etileno. Verificou-se que apenas 24% dos itens avaliados foram atendidos na sua íntegra, demonstrando um baixo índice de atendimento às questões relativas à saúde, segurança, meio ambiente e responsabilidade social. Enfim, o presente estudo mostra que há necessidade de maior atenção por parte do poder público quanto à criação de uma infraestrutura de capacitação de forma a permear essas informações para os profissionais que atuam nesse segmento.

This study aimed to determine how recycling activities impact on health, safety and the environment while also raising some questions related to social responsibility, especially in terms of meeting legislated health, safety and environmental regulatory standards. A questionnaire was developed that was applied directly to a group of recyclers, all located in Rio de Janeiro, three from the Polyethylene and Polyethylene Terephthalate sector. It was found that only 24% of the items assessed were seen in their entirety, demonstrating a low rate of service issues relating to health, safety and environment and social responsibility. Finally, this study shows that greater attention is needed from the government to create an infrastructure for training in order for information on health, safety, environment and social responsibility to permeate to the professionals who operate in recycling.

The mixture of carboxylic acids present in petroleum oil and directly responsible for its acidity and corrosiveness in liquid phase during the refine process is denominated "naphthenic acids". These acids are also present in distilled fraction of petroleum, causing several problems in final products quality. A possible way to remove the carboxilic acids from petroleum distilled fractions is the adsorption in porous materials. However, the results obtained until now indicate that ion exchange resins would be the best adsorbents for this process, which would probably increase its cost. In this work, two commercial adsorbents (clay and activated alumina) were characterized by a set of physical-chemistry techniques and evaluated concerning their capacity of removing naphthenic acids from a light petroleum fraction. It was verified the influence of a thermal treatment previous to the adsorption in its physical-chemistry characteristics and its properties. A high reduction of the TAN values was verified in the residual oils from both adsorbent, although there was a competition among all the compounds present in the light oil fraction for the adsorption sites, which can be probably related to the thermal pre-treatment. These results were related to corrosion yield experiments, and it was observed that the adsorbent pretreatment also affected the reduction in corrosion yields for both alumina and clay.

Atualmente muitas empresas, face as modernas legislações em vigor com respeito ao meio ambiente e, em decorrência da rápida evolução nos mecanismos adotados para a minimização dos rejeitos industriais, estão se defrontando com os seguintes questionamentos; como decidir pela melhor alternativa para a minimização dos rejeitos industriais; considerar apenas o aspecto econômico em termos de rentabilidade ou retorno do investimento. Este trabalho apresenta um levantamento das diversas metodologias existentes para auxílio no processo de tomada de decisão correlacionados com esta nova realidade, enfocando o uso da técnica conhecida como "Brainstorming", para o levantamento das alternativas para a minimização dos rejeitos industriais numa planta em operação.

Many industries are now concerned whether decision taking on industrial waste minimization strategy should be based either on methods rentabilility or investment return rate. This is mostly due to the severe requirements of modern environmental legislation, and to the consequent rapid evolution of the current methods for industrial waste minimization. This work presents a search on the forcasting methods for industrial waste minimization, applicable to different stages of an enterprise (development, design and operation). Special emphasis is given to the "brainstorm technique", applied to an industrial unit in operation.

Este trabalho visa apresentar a utilização de indicadores de performance ambiental no acompanhamento do gerenciamento ambiental. Sob este enfoque será apresentada uma visão geral dos sistemas de gerenciamento ambiental e dos atuais tipos de indicadores estudados. Como conclusão será apresentada uma visão de futuro referente ao gerenciamento ambiental.

Process environmental performance evaluation is practiced by many industries, aiming to establish adequate environmental conditions, and to create a methodology for eliminating critical points from the productive process. This work describes the follow-up of environmental management through a selection of environmental performance indicators. A general review of environmental manegement systems is presented together with the most common used indicators. In conclusion, a future view of environmental manegement is discussed.