Educação ambiental na gestão de resíduos sólidos: contribuições para o meio ambiente sustentável

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the interference of environmental education in the lives of people in relation to solid waste management and environmental education, as stimulating the changing attitudes and concepts. For data collection was used literature with an overview in the interpretation of literature data, comes from the origin of the concepts to the present day, comparing the relationship of the problems caused by the garbage to individual attitudes to the production and proper disposal of residues. The Solid Waste Management is a set of attitudes that has as main objective the elimination of negative environmental impacts on the community, associated with the production and disposal of waste. In this context environmental education can be understood as a basic tool and indispensable to the sustainability of processes in environmental management and essential to develop a critical awareness of the people in favor of the environment, with responsibility and commitment of all involved. The work has focused on the importance of environmental perception of man to the universe. Unlike expected, environmental problems, rather than decreasing, are likely to increase as the results show the fundamental importance of investment awareness and training programs from politicians, even knowing that environmental education is something impossible to see, just feels. It is evident that the planet needs help, the help of all, every day.