ENVITECH - Institute of Environmental Technology and Sustainable Development, PO Box 34073, 5309 Paralimni, Cyprus.
Bioresour Technol. 2010 Mar;101(6):1544-57. doi: 10.1016/j.biortech.2009.10.022. Epub 2009 Nov 10.
Small medium enterprises (SMEs) and very small medium enterprises (VSMEs) are the economic backbone of the most economies in Europe. Those VSMEs have mono-service or product, they feel economic pressure, they sell to the local market, they are family traditions and they are informal organizations, they have very "low management", they have employees from different nationalities, they have little access to adult training and to the new requirements of the market, they do not federate and they produce high amount of waste. The research question of our study was: why do SMEs build up environmental management systems (EMS)? This paper presents the need for the implementation of the EMS as a sustainable tool in order to monitor the production of the waste from SMEs and VSMEs. The paper presents benefits, disadvantages, motivation, differences from the international literature in order to present the necessity for the implementation of the EMS.
中小企业（SMEs）和极小型中小企业（VSMEs）是欧洲大多数经济体的经济支柱。这些 VSMEs 提供单一服务或产品，面临经济压力，面向本地市场销售，具有家族传统和非正规组织的特点，管理非常“粗放”，雇佣来自不同国家的员工，很少有机会接受成人培训和市场的新要求，它们不联合，并且产生大量废物。我们研究的问题是：为什么中小企业要建立环境管理体系（EMS）？本文提出了实施 EMS 的必要性，将其作为一种可持续的工具，以监测中小企业和极小型中小企业产生的废物。本文介绍了实施 EMS 的好处、缺点、动机和与国际文献的差异，以说明实施 EMS 的必要性。
