ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION AND MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT IN AMARILIS-HUÁNUCO, 2019 -2020

Mélida Sara Rivero Lazo

Universidad Nacional Hermilio Valdizán, Huanuco, Peru

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8571-7021

Quintidiano Napoleón Céspedes Galarza

Universidad Nacional Hermilio Valdizán, Huanuco, Peru

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5429-273X

Juan García Céspedes

Universidad Nacional Hermilio Valdizán, Huanuco, Peru

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8227-4237

Rafael Antonio Aníbal Rivero

University of Huanuco, Huanuco, Peru

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1423-2737

Edward Luis Zevallos Choy

Universidad Nacional Hermilio Valdizán, Huanuco, Peru

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0393-4311

Claudia Rocío Otálora Martínez

Universidad Nacional Hermilio Valdizán, Huanuco, Peru

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2584-0327

Nicéforo Bustamante Paulino

Universidad Nacional Hermilio Valdizán, Huanuco, Peru

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8582-269X

Abstract

Environmental education is considered as a continuous process through which individuals and the community become aware of their environment and acquire the values, skills and will to solve current and future environmental problems. Therefore, this research was carried out with the aim of making the inhabitants of the District of Amarilis aware and acquire good practices to manage solid waste in their community, considering that environmental education should favor the development of integral individuals who face future environmental challenges with objectivity and hope, providing them with resources, responsibility, values and understanding of the effects of their actions on the community and the environment. The community of Amarilis and the members of the District Municipality lack the theoretical and practical knowledge of environmental education; therefore, there is no adequate solid waste management. The objective was to determine how environmental education affects solid waste management in the District Municipality of Amarilis, Huánuco. The study materials were bibliographic, technological, financial and desktop materials to carry out the research. The research was based on the experimental design, with its variant the pre-experiment, the experimental program was applied to the only established group; in the field work a questionnaire was administered to 179 officials and workers of the District Municipality of Amarilis and to 389 inhabitants, to know their evaluation of the variables: environmental education and solid waste management; the statistics allowed the processing, analysis and interpretation of the results that were presented in tables and graphs. It was determined that environmental education has a significant impact on solid waste management in the District Municipality of Amarilis. As the theoretical, doctrinal and practical foundations of environmental education become known, solid waste management is improved among the inhabitants of the District of Amarilis-Huánuco.

Keywords: Environmental education, significant impact, solid waste management.