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    Bavaria : una empresa comprometida con el ambiente : propuesta para disminuir el impacto ambiental del uso de botellas plástico PET
    (Universidad EAFIT, 2019) Ramos Franco, Stefania; Mejía Gil, María Claudia
    Changes in the global environmental situation have prompted companies to develop a strong interest in sustainability and circular economy issues. In particular, in the company Bavaria there is an interest in seeking opportunities for the use and re-incorporation of many of its packaging materials, whether they are trying to use them in their own products or through the use and exploitation in alternative products. Specifically, in the present project the PET material of the amber bottles will be analyzed, material that is currently used for the production of a part of the volume of Pony Malta, and whose volume has a significant market share, which is why the material acquire importance in circular economy projects. For this reason, there is a need to establish and evaluate different alternatives that the company can execute, in order to give options for reuse and exploitation in order to fulfill its sustainability and responsibility commitment towards the environment. To achieve this, a qualitative analysis was carried out supported by semi-structured interviews with six experts, where it is intended to know de the experience of each of them issues related not only to the legal context of use of plastic material in the massive consumption sector and how this impacts operations of PET bottles market, but also alternatives for use of PET bottles post-consumption where it is relevant to identify the best proposal for this material, as well as identifying key allies to identify the strategy proposed for Bavaria succeed. The final result showed that de all alternatives only one of them seemed to be the optimal, since it is the only one that would guarantee a significant use of the post-consumption material of PET bottles, and, although it is not the only alternative, according to the interviewees it is the most viable and sustainable. However, in order to execute, Bavaria must work on several aspects: first, together with the government, they must define whether PET bottles are considered single-use plastics, since this would have repercussions on the country's laws; secondly, it must work hand in hand with other actors in the PET bottle cycle chain, to work on consumer education issues in order to increase the volume of waste that people separation at home; and thirdly, it must define the physical and economic means with which the project will be developed, moreover the key allies with which it must work during the process.