Fábio Corbari

Returnable bags - soil as a tool for environmental education.

Generally, the people have an attitude of lack of awareness and sensitivity to the soil, which contributes to their degradation , either by misapplication , whether by its disorganized occupation. The problem around soil conservation in most cases has been neglected by people. The consequence of this neglect is the continued growth of environmental problems related to land degradation , such as erosion , pollution, landslides , siltation of water ways . Faced with the need to demonstrate to students the importance of soil in maintenance of life and preserving the ecosystem is that it was drawn up environmental education project focusing on soils . The project began in 2011 , in the Western Parana State University. This article aims to describe one of the activities in environmental education project titled reusable bags. This project is destined for the student public of elementary and high schools and the general community . The project was developed by various entities and is being developed in the city of Marechal Cândido Rondon . At the end of the project were distributed ten thousand bags to customers of supermarkets project participants and held seven lectures , with total audience of three hundred and fifty students .