Incidencia de la educación ambiental en el manejo de los residuos sólidos en la Unidad Educativa Bilingüe Intercultural Chibuleo, parroquia Juan Benigno Vela.

Abstract

The present reseaarch was realized to determine the incidence of the Environmental Education in the management of solid waste on benefit of the environment in the Intercultural Bilingual Education Unit “Chibuleo”, Juan Benigno Vela parish, of the Ambato Canton, Tungurahua Province, place in which it is produce a quantity of waste, becomiming in a source of environmental pollution, that not being treated. The information was getting through techniques like: the observation of the environment, survey to the director and surveys to 110 students, 18 teachers of the educational unit to request the data in situ thst allowed detail the actual status. In the present Project it was applied the analytic method that consider the need to identifi each one of the parts thatcharacterzed the existing problems, the surveys relate about the knowledge that has about the environmental education and the management of solid waste, before and after of the aplication of the training plan. It was realized a quantification and characterization of the solid waste producced in one week of academic activities, giving an average of35.98 kg/day, classifying plastic in a 14.32%, paper 15.54%, glass 2.94%, metal 0% and oganic waste 68.15% witthout being treated technically, causing serious environmental problems, for that it was elaborated, ejeted and evaluated the no formal environmental educational plan according the 8 (eight) thematics, inducing to the educational community, through the variance analysis of the results getting before and after eject the training plan, concluding that the training is important since a positive impact in the benefit of the educational unit and the environment, recommended to the director of the establishment, to implement in all the educational unit.