Soldados recrutas da Companhia de Comando da 6ª Brigada de Infantaria Blindada de Santa Maria RS, como influenciadores ambientais: uma abordagem prática

Abstract

The present monograph has as main theme an experience on the teaching of Environmental Education, through non-formal education within the Armed Forces, directed to the Brazilian Army. The Military Organization in which the study was applied, is located in the city of Santa Maria / RS. During the year thousands of young people are selected for compulsory military service, many just to fulfill the law of military service, others aspire to an opportunity to pursue a career in the military, but regardless of aspirations, everyone will spend the year with intense military instructions. This is the target audience of this study, aimed at giving young recruits, from the Command Company of the Sixth Brigade of Armored Infantry, a practical experience on the theme of reducing the production of urban solid waste. To do this, a study was used on the legislation related to the topic, the application of a questionnaire, with the purpose of knowing the level of instruction of the military and the level of knowledge about environmental issues, completing a to record the gravimetry of urban solid waste produced in the military houses. By conducting an analysis of the questionnaire, an instruction was made to fill some gaps, knowledge about this environmental issue and soon after the formation of a voluntary environmental patrol, to run workshops. The workshop themes are compliance with good practices of the solid waste segregation of the Military Organization (OM), the gravimetry of some of the waste produced in the Company and the observation of some opportunity for improvement within OM. The results indicate that the military's practice of raising awareness and preserving the environment can change the vision of society's environmental blindness, environmental awareness and perception with a different attention to the bad habits related to solid waste production urban