Educação ambiental na escola: da coleta seletiva do lixo ao aproveitamento do resíduo orgânico

Abstract

The present work had as objective to implement the Environmental Education in the State School of Basic Education Capitão Emídio Jaime de Figueiredo, putting in practice the selective collection of garbage, as well as, the use of the organic residue, avoiding the contamination of the environment and developing in the students the sense of responsibility in the preservation of the environment where they lives. When observing the community’s behavior that surrounds the school, mainly in relation to the destiny of the garbage produced in the residences and, to analyze the questionnaires that had been used for collections of data, it was possible to notice that the residents still didn’t have enough explanation regarding to the subject in question, even so some felt necessity to change this reality. For this has been proportionate to the school community a lecture of clarification and one walked ecological around the neighborhood, with the participation of teachers and students, where was distributed pamphlets containing information regarding questions as: recycling, composting, collects selective and of as he is being streamlined this work in the city. The school also tried to adjust its environment putting standardized dump for the selective collection and using the organic composition in the flower bed of the school and school vegetable garden. Was clear the necessity of the school to work, still more effectively, the environmental questions as contents and practical in the initial series of Basic Education and from there, to start to develop in the students a transforming spirit, considering the Environmental Education as one of the possible efforts in the modification of conceptions and attitudes, aiming at to the transformation of the current reality, the respect to the environment and the improvement of the quality of life of the residents.