A educação ambiental como instrumento de efetivação da gestão dos resíduos sólidos no município de Bento Gonçalves/RS

Abstract

This dissertation aims to verify if Environmental Education taught in formal and non-formal character has been contributing to the solid urban waste management question in Bento Gonçalves. This because the Federal Law n. 12.305/2010 (with the alterations of the Law n. 14.026/2020, established the guidelines to the solid waste management and attributed to the public managers to perform the correct final destination of solid urban recyclables and residues. As determined by the art. 225 of the Federal Constitution of 1998, competes to the society and to the Executive Power to act for preserving the environment, therefore, the issue of segregation of urban solid waste is still fundamental for the municipal government to comply with the determinations of the National Solid Waste Policy. In this sense, Environmental Education can and should be developed as an aid instrument on the issue of effective management of solid waste in municipalities, considering that through the knowledge about the importance of preserving the environment, as well as the participation of the whole society and the Public Power, the correct destination can be given waste generated in the municipality, guaranteeing to present and future generations an ecologically balanced and economically sustainable environment. Thus, this research aims to analyze the relationship between Environmental Education and the management of solid waste in the city of Bento Gonçalves, seeking to identify whether there is actually any type of contribution from Environmental Education in the management of the Municipal Plan for Solid Waste in this municipality. To achieve this objective, the research was characterized as basic and developed in an exploratory way, making use of the analysis of environmental legislation, specialized doctrine, as well as analyzing the legislation and the factual situation of the municipality of Bento Gonçalves, seeking to identify how work is being carried out on the issue of Environmental Education and the management of solid waste in the municipality. After collecting the data from the selected material, through documentary, the analysis and interpretation of the collected data were performed. It can be highlighted with the main research result that Environmental Education in a formal and non-formal character is an important instrument for the implementation of the Solid Waste Management Plan in the municipality. The collected data demonstrated that SMED and SMMAM have been working together on the issue of the dissemination of Environmental Education as one of the instruments of the PNRS, in order to make citizens aware of the importance of the correct segregation of waste still at the source, so that contributes to the selective collection service. According to data available by the Municipal Executive, approximately twenty-four percent of the garbage collected every year is recycled and this result is due to the public policy of encouraging recycling and Environmental Education implemented in the municipality. [resumo fornecido pelo autor]