Resíduos sólidos e a conscientização ambiental nas escolas: uma breve revisão da literatura

Abstract

Brazil, the fifth largest country in the world in terms of territory and population, is one of the countries that generate the most solid waste and most of this waste is not properly disposed of, thus generating a huge environmental and social problem. The present work deals with a brief review of the literature on the importance of environmental education and solid waste disposal in schools. Thus, interventions carried out by different authors in some Brazilian teaching institutions were analyzed, addressing the issue of environmental education and the disposal of solid waste for the school community. Furthermore, it also deals with the importance of Environmental Education in schools so that children and young people become aware of the future of the planet. The Federal Constitution guarantees that we all have the right to an ecologically balanced environment, an asset for common use by the people and essential to a healthy quality of life, imposing on the Public Power and the community the duty to defend and preserve it for the present and future generations, but unfortunately this is not enough to guarantee this fundamental right. The school community is a fundamental part of this fight to preserve the future of the planet. Lectures and workshops are held in many schools across Brazil where children and young people learn and become aware of how to properly dispose of such waste and take advantage of it to give it another ecologically correct purpose, helping to preserve the environment