Práticas de responsabilidade socioambiental : caso do setor supermercadista da Barra dos Coqueiros/SE

Abstract

At present, the socio-environmental responsibility movement has promoted numerous debates in society about the role of individuals, companies and institutions in promoting effective practices to reduce negative environmental impacts. The objective of the study was to analyze the socioenvironmental responsibility practices developed by microentrepreneurs in the supermarket sector of Barra dos Coqueiros (SE). In the bibliographic review, the main environmental events, the concept and the importance of environmental management were discussed. The main focus of this study was the social and environmental responsibility. Its concept was presented and the importance of the practices, their benefits and difficulties in implementing it in the different companies, and in a more specific way how the socio-environmental actions in the Supermarket sector are developed. The profile of managers, company characteristics, degree of knowledge of socio-environmental actions, socio-environmental responsibility practices adopted by the company, benefits of socio-environmental actions and difficulty faced by the company with socio-environmental practices were analyzed. The methodology applied to this research is exploratory and descriptive, with a qualitative approach, with primary data collection obtained from field research, and secondary data from information materials, books, magazines and the internet. The results show that the level of managers' knowledge about social and environmental actions was very low, revealing many misunderstandings about the subject; The socio-environmental practices adopted that obtained a higher rate of recurrence were the use of low-energy bulbs (100%), the attention given to the controls of energy consumption (90%) and water consumption (85%) and use of recycled material (55%), mainly bags and packaging for customers' merchandise.