Educación ambiental en el manejo de residuos sólidos en la parroquia rural Rumipamba, cantón Rumiñahui

Abstract

Abstract:In this project, it was made a diagnostic about how people of Rumipamba the rural parish of Rumiñahui canton perceive the current handling of residential solid waste. The work was descriptive, and a survey was applied to a sample of 258 persons older than 18 years of the parish. With the diagnostic results that contemplate generation, handling and disposal issues. An environmental education program was proposed to the dwellers of the parish considering the knowledge deficiencies of their residential waste management. It was proved that the greater amount of solid waste is organic food waste. Regarding that the 72% of the population, throw this garbage away through the public rubbish collection services. Plastic, paper and cardboard waste is next in production. It was also able to determinate that the majority of the dwellers of Rumipamba rural parish, are interested and have predisposition to learn about the management of residential and its surroundings solid waste, as well to practice the 3R’s program (recycle, reuse and reduce). We can conclude that the environmental education actions applied to the population of the parish, gave a positive change in their knowledge and in their behavior at the time of eliminating solid waste.