Programa de educação ambiental informal através da separação na fonte e coleta seletiva dos resíduos sólidos domiciliares do bairro Recanto do Sol, município de Horizontina - RS

Abstract

Technological advances have enabled increasing the access of individuals to consumer goods. Every manufacturing process requires raw materials, water and energy. The increase in consumption encouraged the increased production, closing a cycle, which has as a consequence environmental degradation. The waste is generated in all sectors and processes of human and industrial activity, which may be present in the form of gases, ash, acids, rubber, scrap metal, glass, ceramics, oils, greases, etc.. Many of these wastes are toxic. These wastes become problems when they are not treated as aware and responsible for the public sector, private and people in general, may cause various environmental, social and economic developments have not a correct treatment and final disposal. Many of these may be irreversible damage to the environment, requiring that companies and public authorities adopt environmental management programs that will prevent this problem. In the present study was a practice of non-formal environmental education through the Source Separation and Selective Collection of Urban Solid Waste District Recanto of the Sun in the city of horizontina-RS. The company supportive and responsible for financing and supply of all materials necessary, was the company Residue Environmental Solutions Ltda. The goal proposed for the study was: to develop a practice of non-formal environmental education, by encouraging and monitoring the separation at source generating the waste Recanto the neighborhood of the sun, and selective collection of materials, through a program that seeks promote social involvement through strategies of environmental education and social mobilization that put the population as the collection agent, with voluntary membership, integrated actions and building partnerships. The results showed: the identification of individual behavior with regard to the separation of garbage and involvement in projects of selective collection, as well as evaluating the context together with the strategies recommended for the management of waste, under the focus of sustainability and protection environmental, because the damage to the environment are significant, if they are not designed properly.