Educação ambiental e extensão: oficinas de sensibilização com ênfase nos resíduos sólidos

Abstract

The concern with the environment is not recent, but it was in recent years that this theme gained notoriety and ubiquity, involving everything and everyone. Which made it imperative to disseminate environmental awareness actions inside and outside school spaces. Thus, this work represents an excerpt of the Environmental Sustainability Project, which aimed to expand actions that promote awareness/sensitization practices with an emphasis on the disposal of solid waste within the scope of the Federal Institute of Northern Minas Gerais. For the purpose of preparing this article, the IFNMG/Campus Januária was defined. The study is an exploratory study with a qualitative and quantitative approach. In the first stage, the project was presented to the community through lectures and videos. In a second step, practical activities were carried out for the institution's internal and external community, through workshops: domestic composting; make soap with used oil and art with solid residues. In the internal workshops, a semi-structured questionnaire was applied to one third of the participants, in order to gather information about the environmental perception of the students. Among the advances presented by the project, expressive results can be cited, such as: increased cooperation between IFNMG campuses; training multipliers and partners for the education, sensitization and awareness of the population about the importance of rethinking consumption habits and reducing, reusing and recycling environmental resources, especially solid waste; integration of teaching, research and extension as a way of stimulating and sensitizing students at the institution, with emphasis on activities in the communities; gathering information about the students' environmental perception, among others. The importance of the continuity and expansion of the project is emphasized given the complexity and scope of the theme so that it promotes the effective change in the necessary attitude.