A THE INFLUENCE OF ENVIRONMENTAL DISCIPLINES TAUGHT IN UNIVERSITY COURSES IN THE SELECTIVE SEPARATION OF HOUSEHOLD WASTE

Abstract

The increase in the amount of solid waste has raised concerns about the impact worldwide. In view of the intensification of waste generation, it was decided to question the possible impact of the workload of the environmental disciplines of the undergraduate program on the disposal of waste. Thus, some undergraduate courses were chosen, such as: night courses at UniCesumar University, such as: Psychology, Physiotherapy, Music, Software Engineering, Law, Administration, Fashion, Agronomy, Biological Sciences and Civil Engineering. Later, it was necessary to collect the curriculum of the courses, containing subjects from the first to the last period. For the classification of the workload, the courses were divided into: none, one, two to three, four or more disciplines related to ecology or sustainability. From the categorization of the courses, the questionnaire was elaborated and 16 questions were defined, 15 objective and 1 open. Data collection was performed through a visit to the rooms of the last period of the courses. Based on the data collected, we found that most of the 52 students, who chose to answer the questionnaire, were the household waste. Among the percentage that does not part of the garbage, it is analyzed that 3 people do not do it because they do not know how to do it. The data showed that 86.5% of the people already knew about sustainability and selective collection. Of these, 33% stated that their knowledge about the subject increased after graduation. Therefore, in our study, we verified that the separation of household waste was not related to the workload of undergraduate courses.