Diseño de manual de compras verdes para la Universidad Santo Tomás en el marco de los requisitos de ISO 14001: 2015 y análisis de ciclo de vida para mezcladores desechables de bebidas como insumo dentro de la institución.

Abstract

The environmental management within the University Santo Tomás Multicampus has allowed guiding the design, monitoring and improvement of environmental policy within the institution, since this, renews performance and ensures communication with the university community and its surroundings. As an educational institution, its purpose is to provide quality services by articulating various disciplines where its purpose is to provide the community and social environment with activities aimed at the achievement, development and improvement of their physical resources, technological, educational and scientific [1]. This document presents the design of a green purchasing manual as a tool to establish controls in the purchase of supplies and services, integrating to this work the analysis of the life cycle of the drink mixers used in cafeterias and University offices with the purpose to identify impacts generated by this activity as a representative input of the institution. It is also part of the work carried out, the analysis in the SimaPro software that helped to establish the impact profiles of the drinks mixers used within the University, For this the visit was made to the company Promociones Fantástico S.A.S. where the production process was recognized along with its inputs, outputs, raw materials and inputs that will be part of the results produced by the software. On the other hand, the life cycle analysis made it possible to take actions aimed at the development of the institution’s environmental strategies, promoting an improvement in the University’s internal processes such as the substitution of inputs, control and management of resources.