Consumo Sustentável e Descarte Consciente: Uma Análise do Comportamento dos Estudantes em Relação ao Lixo e seu Impacto no Meio Ambiente

Abstract

Environmental awareness is essential to assess our behaviors regarding the environment and the amount of waste generated. Knowing this importance, it is important to develop critical awareness and identify actions that impact the environment in which we live. Thus, this article presents investigative practices on the consumption and disposal of waste by students of a public elementary school in the city of Nazaré da Mata - PE. The article is structured in an investigative didactic sequence that addresses the practices of consumption and proper disposal of waste, divided into five phases: problematization through a dialogued class, a questionnaire to assess the prior knowledge of the research participants, then a sequenced dynamic with a pedagogical competition and an educational lecture on recycling and the environment, and finally, the application of the questionnaire, aiming at a review of the concepts acquired throughout the entire methodological process. In view of this, the results showed greater environmental awareness and understanding regarding the consumption and conscious disposal of waste by the students.