Environmental education campaign to improve waste management in the Portal de Saravita neighborhood

Abstract

Santander produces between 300-1000 tons per day of solid wastes and it is estimated that, by 2030 in Colombia, there will be a deficit in the installed capacity in landfills for final disposal. It is necessary to strengthen the strategies tending to close production cycles in the perspective of the circular economy, and the correct source separation is one of those strategies. The aim of this work was to conduct an environmental education campaign on the correct classification of solid waste with inhabitants the neighborhood "Portal de Saravita". For this proposal, was applied a correlational research with a mixed approach using an experimental design of pre-test and post-test. This methodology seeks to show how different environmental education strategies can influence behavior with respect to source separation. Focusing on environmental education as a continuous and permanent process, it was evidenced that the households involved in the study improve the source separation in a 20% compared with the diagnosis phase of this research