In 2023, 90% of industrial companies adopted an environmental practice
Of the 9,827 industrial companies with 100 or more employees in Brazil in 2023, 89 percent had implemented at least one environmental initiative or practice in water resources, solid waste, energy efficiency, recycling and reuse, land use, and atmospheric emissions, a recent study by statistics bureau IBGE found.Initiatives related to solid waste and recycling and reuse were the most mentioned. They were named by 79.6 and 75.1 percent of businesses respectively. Energy efficiency and water resources come next: more than half of the enterprises said they had such initiatives and practices—61.5 and 57.1 percent respectively. Atmospheric emissions and land use appear to be the least often adopted.The results show that environmental initiatives and practices have become quite widespread in...