2025-04-012025-04-012024-12-12https://repositorio.ifal.edu.br/handle/123456789/916Environmental, social and governance practices, better known by the English term Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG), have become increasingly important for companies worldwide, given that these three areas are interconnected and can help companies manage short, medium and long-term risks and opportunities, in addition to increasing transparency and environmental and social responsibility. This work aimed to identify ESG criteria aimed at the management of MDF waste in a small-scale furniture production context for application in the analysis of continuous and operational improvement of the use of the input and internal and/or external reuse. The specific objectives include: understanding the ESG axes, themes and criteria, the concepts of integrated management and waste management, and the relationships between them for the small-scale furniture industry; summarizing Brazilian environmental legislation and technical standards related to waste management; identifying ESG criteria, aimed at continuous improvement of waste management, applicable to the small-scale furniture production context; to characterize the critical points and opportunities of technical operations for generating MDF waste, aiming at the continuous and operational improvement of the use of the input and internal and/or external reuse; to map the processes through operational flowcharts and PDCA cycle. This is an applied research, of a technological nature, with a descriptive and explanatory approach, whose selected methodological procedures were the systematic bibliographic review and documentary analysis, and the field research, developed through a case study. The object and locus of the field research focused on small-scale carpentry in the city of Maceió-AL. As a result, this research contributed to the analysis of waste management through ESG criteria, including the elaboration of a training plan focused on the management of MDF waste in small-scale carpentry.ptSustentabilidadeIndustria moveleiraGestão ambientalGovernança corporativaGerenciamento de resíduosDissertaçãoENGENHARIAS