Educando o nosso olhar para as potencialidades dos resíduos sólidos enquanto fator de desenvolvimento local sustentável na cidade de Gravatá-PE

Abstract

Our research entitled: Educating the look to the potential of solid waste while factor of sustainable local development in the city of Gravatá it is a case study in the city of Gravatá, which aimed to examine how the solid waste can contribute to the local sustainable development from a proposal for environmental education. More specifically identifying projects in the region that had focused on solid wastes, developing a local landscape, identifying groups or people in the city who used the solid waste as raw material for survival, analyzing how the solid wastes would be being used as a resource to promote sustainable local development, culminating in the elaboration of a proposal for environmental education for the use of solid waste as a raw material in the region. As methodological strategy sought to identify in the region people or groups that use solid waste as raw material for survival, as well as the identification of projects in the region that had focused on the solid waste and developing a local panorama, perform analysis of how the solid waste was being used as a resource to promote sustainable local development and the elaboration of a proposal for environmental education for the use of solid waste as a raw material in the municipality of Gravatá. The subject of our research were people directly involved with the public management and people or groups that used solid waste as raw material for formal or informal way. The main focuses of the problems highlighted were the relationship man/nature and environment and how the relationship of production and consumption resulted in the generation of various problems involving the solid waste in the country. Despite major advances translated in to public policies and laws, imposed with the purpose of giving guidelines for solid waste management in Brazil, as the Brazilian solid waste Policy, State and environmental laws, we found in our research that in practice many problems are faced daily in municipal administration and in the absence of initiatives by the Government to make the set of objectives and goals of those policies are achieved and reflect a positive result in forms of initiatives the use of such waste by promoting sustainable local development. Environmental education proposal proposal drafted in this research has the objective of strengthening the self-organization of initiatives found in population as the pickers of recyclable solid waste and largely autonomous and artisans that solid waste reuse in the production of his plays.