Comprehensive waste management program at the Salesiano Benavente School

Abstract

This research is channeled into areas related to environmental care with a sustainability approach, so student participation is involved through a recycling transformation program, facing various problems, context situations and current development, which directly influence our environment. That is why it is integrated into the "Colegio Salesiano Benavente" primary level, to the processes of sustainable development, favoring the ability to guide education towards interaction with present and future challenges. The objective of the research is to apply a comprehensive management program, thus contributing as a school to local development based on actions and strategies on the proper management of waste, forming an environmental education in the processes of educational improvement. This action-research is based on the need that students present at their basic level, to obtain the necessary knowledge about the importance of caring for the environment and favor the rule of the 3 R's (Reduce, Reuse and Recycle). The application of the program, allows to create awareness of the environmental culture, the reduction of the amount of garbage and provides a solution to the current problem on the increase of waste, with a focus on recycling, but above all on the reuse of the same, creating crafts as a pedagogical strategy to generate environmental habits in students.