Gestión ambiental de las pymes del sector comercio en el Cantón Machala, Provincia El Oro, Ecuador.

Abstract

Environmental management includes the set of policies, responsibilities, procedures, processes, actions and environmental practices that are used to improve the environmental performance of companies, thus allowing compliance with environmental regulations and increased competitiveness. The objective of the work is to analyze the elements of environmental management used by pymes in the commerce sector, located in the Machala Canton. For its development the quantitative approach was used, the method used is deductive and the type of research is descriptive with a field design. The technique of data collection was the survey using random sampling. The results show a high percentage of indifference in aspects such as training of workers in environmental issues (25.5%), consideration of environmental aspects in planning (21.6%), measurement of environmental performance (19.6%) , waste reduction (17.6%), introduction of clean technologies (17.6%), knowledge of environmental standards (13.7%), measures to prevent environmental impacts (13.7%) and definition of a policy environmental in the company (13.7%). It concludes on the need to increase environmental management in companies in the commerce sector in order to obtain a better performance of them.