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“We have over 1,800 hectares of Environmental Parks voluntarily maintained by Alcoa, which annually receives thousands of visitors and where environmental education actions are carried out.

We have acquired an area to create an Environmental Parkvin Tubarão-SC.

We have established an agreement with International Conservation- Brazil to support the PARNA - Amazon National Park.

We have invested resources from the expansion compensation for the Alumar plant in the Itapiracó Park and the Rangedor Ecological Reserve in São Luís-MA.

We support CEPEMA (Environmental Research Center) of the University of São Paulo in Cubatão – SP.” (Latin America Alcoa Sustainability Report, 2006/2007; 11)

All this information shows how much Alcoa is engaged in environmental issues, participating in different ways to the improvement of environment’s quality.

Are there any industrial eyesores for which Alcoa Inc. was responsible a decade ago, but which have not been rehabilitated? (Shahin and Zairi, 2007)

Managers were not able to give statistics or clear information about past activities of the company in relation to the existence of eyesores that could not have been rehabilitated. The only statement they could give was that a range of environmental and financial aspects are considered by the company when developing options for treating, disposing, or using bauxite or any other residues or products.

Would you be happy about the good-neighbourliness of Alcoa if you had to live next door to it? (Shahin and Zairi, 2007)

In general, managers do not show any controversies against being neighbour of the company, in fact they say they would be pleased to “share their garden” to a company that seeks development in a sustainable way.

However, they affirm that the company situated in Pocos de Caldas, is located in an area where population is not intense, therefore, being difficult to make a good judgement taking into consideration all the aspects and not only environmental aspects.

Do you have an efficient environmental control and protection system? Have you tested it to see that it does work? Does the company environmental supremo – if there is one – have the authority to impose his decisions over those of plant managers, or does corporate policy ensure compliance in some other way? (Shahin and Zairi, 2007)

Managers agree that the company has an efficient control system in relation to its social responsibilities, especially concerning the global environment. They point out the company’s web page where environment values, policies and principles can be found.

According to them, environmental concerns are part of the company’s overall strategy, however, and as explained in question 5, the decentralization of the company’s structure make possible to analyse environmental problems of each of i本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。