Intervención ambiental en una institución educativa de la ciudad de Cali para generar una cultura de reciclaje

Abstract

Actual Society faces great challenges in front of environmental troubles generated by the population accelerated grow and the industrialization process which has led to the growth of consumerism. The Educational Institutes has the challenge to board the Escolar Ambiental Project (PRAE in Spanish, Proyecto Ambiental Escolar), to foster an environmental culture, this could be achieved by sensitizing the educational community to get the size of the impact of problems such as the waste management. The objective of the research was to foment a recycling culture by implementing intervention strategies in the Llano Verde Educational Institution. Differences are presented regarding gender, socioeconomic level, age and academic degree in relation to variables of behavior, attitude and pro environmental practices. The mixed type methodology was implemented for two groups. First, a pre and post test was applied to group 1, made up of people from all the dependencies of the institution. With group 2 made up of students from 4th to 11th grade, the degree of appropriation of the recycling culture was measured. The educational community was also sensitized through videos, environmental training was provided, application of a theoretical-practical workshop on solid waste, accompaniment in the characterization of solid waste and environmental campaigns, as well as participation and dissemination of the project by the social network such as Facebook.The results show that before the intervention, the poor management of solid waste was identified as the main environmental problem in the Institution (100%), followed by noise pollution (65%). After the intervention, only 15% identified acoustic contamination as the only problem that was present at the Institution. It was also observed that women are much more sensitive to environmental problems. Group 1 presented a high level of knowledge to correctly characterize recyclable solid waste after the intervention. It was observed that non-recyclable solid waste such as aerosols and batteries were not easily identifiable. Group 2, 98% recognizes the difference between garbage and waste. The community of the educational institution gave importance and active participation to the activities programmed for the research project. With the research work, the appropriation of a recycling culture to the present day was achieved in the educational community