Avaliação de programas de educação ambiental voltados para gestão de resíduos sólidos em escolas municipais de Pinhais/PR

Abstract

The main goal of this study is to evaluate environmental education programs for managing solid waste in municipal schools in Pinhais / PR. The programs are related to the campaign "Stop the Waste" and to the project "100% Recyclable School", which, until this moment, have not undergone any type of evaluation to assess the extent of its goals. The field survey and the case study outlined the exploratory research. The field survey was developed with employees (qualified informants) of the Education Departments of the Environment and the municipal Urbanism of Pinhais, directly involved in the management of these programs. The case study was developed in Municipal Schools, Aroldo de Freitas and 31 de Março, together with the teachers and students of 4th and 5th grades of Elementary School. The qualitative and quantitative method was used for applying survey questionnaires in the secretariats and in the case study schools, in order to evaluate and investigate the knowledge of the subjects regarding these programs. The survey responses were grouped into categories and thus could be translated into percentage data. The solid waste segregation conducted by quartering technique was used to identify qualitative and quantitative solid waste produced in the case study schools. The results obtained by questionnaires applied together with qualified informants demonstrated little knowledge of the programs. The results of the solid waste segregation proved that recyclable and organic waste were found completely mixed. The results of the questionnaires with teachers and students in the 4th and 5th grades showed that the actions of the project "100% Recyclable School" showed better results than the campaign "Stop the Waste", as well as students of the School Aroldo de Freitas assimilated more satisfactorily the content of programs than the students of the School 31 de Março. The methodology used in this study can be used as an evaluation tool for the project "100% Recyclable School", by Pinhais city hall, when applying in the other 20 local schools.