Avaliação dos impactos ambientais de uma indústria de plástico no município de Gravatá-PE

Abstract

The recent times has been the scene of alerts increasingly incisive about the risks that the intensification of industrial activities have been offering to the environment. Such activities have consequences as a lack of natural resources and consequently contamination and imbalance on the atmosphere resulting from production and consumption. Therefore, this study aimed to evaluate the impacts in a plastic industry in the process of manufacturing flexible bags, which through a situational preliminary diagnosis of the project, created a check list of the entire production process and an adaptation of the Matrix Leopold original to identify the possible impacts. The impactful actions were identified and analyzed for aspects of magnitude and importance. The multiplication of these two important aspects resulted in the identification of human actions more impactful. The methodology and the results show serve as important sources in decision making related to the activities performed allowing to identify the degree of impacting activities and as an aid to plans for mitigation measures for these impacts.