Contribuições da educação ambiental no processo de gestão de resíduos rurais no município de Panambi/RS

Abstract

This paper was conducted with the objective to analyze the management of the solid waste produced over the daily activities in the rural area as well as evaluate the level of acknowledgment within the objectives of environmental education. The Environmental Education is, admittedly, a way to get the attention of the population in order to act before the environmental problems that are currently arising. In order to achieve these objectives we carried out a bibliographic research on the environmental crisis that now is taking place and the problematic of the solid waste, either through the view of the destination of these residuals or the development model set up through consumerism and waste of natural resources, followed by the study of the concept and objectives of the Environmental Education and the role of the development of the citizen, who is worried about the Planet. The survey has been carried out through a questionnaire applied on 36 farmers living in five different places in the rural area in Panambi, RS. After the systematization of the questionnaire it was possible to evaluate what is being done with the solid waste produced at the rural settlements, the level of acknowledgement of the population, as well as identify necessities of actions in the environmental education, in order to contribute on the betterment of the management system adopted by the producers and also consider the management of the natural resources, as well as the deficiencies of the Selective Collection System which is extended to the rural area.