A study on reverse logistics of post-comsuption mercury lamps in retail companies in the city of Candiba-Ba

Abstract

This study sought to understand how to operationalize the reverse logistics of post-consumption mercury lamps, in companies of segments of retail transactions of construction materials and of electrical material, in city of Candiba-BA. This qualitative and descriptive study, was instrumented through of a field survey with the development of partially structured interviews with the administrators of 6 companies belonging to the referred segments, that commercialize or use mercury lamps. It was found partial operationalization of the reverse logistics of post-consumption mercury lamps among the companies studied, where 33,3% do not make all the necessary activities to the appropriate environmental disposal of these solid waste.