Educação ambiental: aplicação de projeto piloto junto aos colaboradores de uma empresa do ramo automotivo

Abstract

The result of a process of industrialization and urbanization, environmental problems have advanced greatly in recent decades. Seeking to establish a control and solve the problems associated with the environment arises Environmental Education, which aims through educational activities building a partnership with local and planetary consciousness. Given this scenario, it created the need for the business sector, potential polluter, take a favorable stance opposite to the concept of sustainable production. In this context, this study aimed at environmental awareness-raising with employees of the postsales industry (machine shop and technical assistance) of a car dealership, minimize the impacts of high generation of solid waste. Among the activities are: the use of questionnaires in order to evaluate the understanding of respondents about the environmental issues and the perception in relation to solid waste management in the workplace, awareness strategies, and finally the final analysis . The final analysis included the application of a new questionnaire with questions present in the initial questionnaire, in order to establish a comparison and analysis of expenses in order to measure the result of actions taken during the project. Through the final analysis it was established greater employee engagement on issues related to the environment. The results indicated a significant improvement in the disposal of six of the eleven analyzed waste, especially plastic packaging and oil filter, an improvement of 65.10% and 81.66% respectively. The project has provided the study setting the awareness of employees, reducing environmental impact through waste management, and cost savings.