The objective of this article is to present a review of the industrial symbiosis literature for responsible consumption in order to identify its relationship and by-products in the coffee growing sector. The type of investigation is documentary, and the method is deductive. The research was carried out in two phases: Systematic Literature Review (SLR) based on the SLR model of Garza-Reyes (2015) and the identification of the literature and relationships with other studies. The result that was obtained was that the reviewed literature maintains that industrial symbiosis is a way to get a sustainable world, because it supports the generation of jobs, additional income, lengthens the life cycle of products, uses waste as by-products and transfers it knowledge. In this sense, through this research, the bases of the relationship of industrial symbiosis with responsible consumption are laid, which can be applied in the coffee growing sector, where many benefits are obtained due to the amount of waste that is produced, during its production, and the properties that waste has, in order to be used as by-products of other processes, thus helping society, the environment and the economy of the sector.