Management of Waste and Effluents Generate in the Laboratories of a University in the city of Santo Angelo-RS

Abstract

Sustainability has demanded the most diverse organizations to adopt a new style of management with their stakeholders, which combines the practice and dissemination of economic efficiency and social and environmental responsibility, so that they are perceived as legitimate before society. Notwithstanding this reality, there are the Teaching Institution (IE). In this sense, the objective of the study was to propose a waste and effluent management system for a University in the Missions region of Rio Grande do Sul, considering waste generated waste generated in health laboratories, as well as the costs involved treatment. The methodology is an exploratory, applied and case study. The results of the waste and effluent management system clearly show economic advantages, the reduction of physical space for the storage of waste and effluents, the reduction of concentrations and volumes of solutions and reagents, as well as the awareness of the teachers and students about the importance of managing waste and effluents generated in laboratories during practical classes, graduation work and research projects.