This research aimed to evaluate the environmental and economic advantages of a reverse logistics process of printed glasses of a large company sector. The company implemented a reverse logistics for solid waste management packaging product protection, consisting of wooden boxes lined with cardboard collar steel and also reuse of broken glass. In this case study of exploratory origin, with data collection through interviews and participant observation, characterized as qualitative and quantitative, measured up the economic and environmental advantages of implementing reverse logistics. For the analysis of the environmental advantage we used the method Wuppertal. The results showed an environmental gain of 131.86 kg of material is not modified and removed from the environment and economic benefit of 37.4% of the average total net revenue from the reuse of packaging and reuse of broken glass.
Reverse Logistic; Solid Waste Management; Reuse; Recycling