A política nacional de educação ambiental e a política nacional de resíduos sólidos: uma possibilidade

Abstract

This research presents a study on the importance of environmental education for the implementation of the National Policy on Solid Waste - PNRS, checking how was the consolidation of environmental education in the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development, established by the United Nations between 2005/2014 . The research identifies as the regulation is located on the National Environmental Education Policy and the National Policy on Solid Waste in this decade and how the processes that address these policies are developed. She goes on to examine the guidelines and objectives of these policies related to environmental issues of each of them and, therefore, presents the theoretical framework on this issue. The discipline of Environmental Education and Waste Management are analyzed as indicated in the Constitution and in the laws that underlie infra. The research is justified by the importance of the issue, seeking to contribute to the construction of critical perspectives on the issue of Environmental Education and Waste Management. With this research we sought to bring important aspects discussion on Environmental Education and PNRS. It is qualitative research which used methods as bibliographic and documentary analysis, taking the Constitutional Charter, subsequent legislation and institutional regulations as sources of study. This line is set to be a documentary study between the provisions of these policies, as regards the provisions brought by the United Nations for building sustainable societies in the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development. The results show significant progress in dealing with issues of environmental education and waste management, but also the need to strengthen the Environmental Education Policy and the National Policy on Solid Waste, and thus modify the current corporate paradigm. For this, the primordiality defends itself a substantial change in current patterns of consumption and relationships with the environment and the exemption of waste, being relevant the role of environmental education in a critical perspective to conclude that this becomes increasingly essential for the operationalization of the National Solid Waste Policy