Name: ZENILTE RAMOS DA CUNHA JÚNIOR
Publication date: 05/05/2023
Examining board:
Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| ALVIM BORGES DA SILVA FILHO | Presidente |
| GILTON LUIS FERREIRA | Examinador Interno |
| LUCIANA LONDERO BRANDLI | Examinador Externo |
Summary: ESG, the acronym for Environmental, Social and Governance dimensions, has seen a 1200% increase in searches between 2021 and 2022 on Google Trends. Such interest developed over the years points in a direction of sustainable consciousness of the younger generation and although the term ESG and the concept of sustainability are not new, it is in the last few years that ESG has entered the vocabulary of top leadership and capital investors for good. Despite this, there is no minimal consensus on a sufficiently organized metric that would facilitate the measurement of ESG practices in companies. In this context, this research seeks to bring focus to one of the factors that compose and can impact ESG management, industrial solid waste.
In Brazil, among the main waste generators are steel and metallurgical companies, which have few ESG initiatives and are the subject of this research, which aims to assess the impact of solid industrial waste management on the ESG approach,
based on theories and studies such as the social capital approach, taking into account the interaction between waste generating and processing companies, ESG, and the 5 Rs of sustainability for waste management.
The results obtained from the analyses indicate that among the 5 Rs of waste management, reuse does not correlate with ESG factors, pointing to a little explored theme in steel mills and waste managers. Social capital only mediates the relationship between rethinking and refusing in the model developed for steel mills, and for the other Rs no relationship between Social Capital and ESG was identified.
Another point identified was the waste management strategy used by each of the 06 steel mills evaluated through the GRI reports. Through this analysis we can identify that the steel mills do not clearly disclose the main initiatives for improving GRSI,
despite this, the results of their employees' perception of GRSI can be observed through interviews
