Distrito eco industrial de Palmas/TO: um estudo de caso

Abstract

He objective is to analyze the economic potential of Eco Industrial District Palmas/TO from the interaction of the dimensions of environmental and social sustainability. It is a bibliographical research, document and case study. For the case study applied a semi-structured questionnaire to companies located in the District Eco Industrial and Wholesale Palmas/TO. The study covered 24 companies of 171 in various activities at the site in September 2015 to obtain the characterization of the companies allocated in the district, identifying the existing internal networks of cooperation and compliance with the environmental, social and economic aspects. The results indicate that the cooperation between companies is minimal tending to zero. It was noticed that companies, despite being on a downward trend in the consumption of natural resources such as raw materials, energy and water, do not gather sufficient information to characterize who are in an industrial eco district. It was found that that there is an interaction between the agents related to the business environment and the environment leading to an industrial symbiosis. It was identified, too, there is the generation of waste insusceptible marketing, entertaining, companies do not have woken up to the possibility to earn revenue from these waste by selling it for use in another production process. Among the main economic possibilities, focused on environmental and social issues, there is the likelihood of the commercialization of this waste.