Propuesta de un programa de educación ambiental sobre el aprovechamiento de los residuos orgánicos domiciliarios en la parroquia rural Lago San Pedro, cantón La Joya de los Sachas.

Abstract

Organic waste, as food leftovers and biodegradable materials, denotes a substantial part of the waste generated in households; therefore, the lack of adequate practices for its collection, treatment, and use has led to a series of negative consequences for life environment quality in different country localities; consequently, the study outcome was to design an environmental education program on the adequate management of household organic solid waste in Lago San Pedro rural parish. A non-experimental, descriptive, explanatory, field design was used, in addition to a mixed approach, focus groups identify strengths, opportunities, weaknesses, and threats (SWOT) analysis of waste and solid waste management, in addition, surveys were applied together with a waste characterization using the quartic method, finally, an environmental education program was designed based on a literature review for effective teaching and training techniques application, as well as knowledge measurement acquired with a questionnaire. The main problems of waste and solid waste management in Lago San Pedro were the lack of proper waste classification, lack of knowledge, lack of interest on the part of public officials, lack of funds for waste management programs, water and air pollution, among others; in addition, it was determined that the per capita production of waste was 0.445 kg/person/day. It was concluded that the environmental education program called EcoVida will help train students, residents, and parish authorities on the importance of recycling household organic solid waste, so it is recommended that a pilot plan of the program be implemented to improve it through feedback to take it to an effective application.