Environmental Awareness and Solid Waste Management in Secondary School Students

Alexander Gonzales Egoavil C.; Nancy Morveli Kancha W. · Proceedings of the LACCEI international Multi-conference for Engineering, Education and Technology (2024) · DOI: 10.18687/laccei2024.1.1.389

Resumen

The production of solid waste is a relevant problem today; Millions of tons are generated annually that do not have an adequate final disposal, causing negative impacts that affect the environment and human health. Environmental awareness is considered a pillar that must be adopted to reduce this impact and that must be applied at school. The objective of this research is to determine if there is a relationship between environmental awareness and solid waste management in secondary school students. A 30-question questionnaire was used on a sample of 125 secondary school students; Subsequently, the results were organized in Excel and sent to the IBM SPSS Statistics 26.0 program for statistical analysis. Resulting in the questionnaires having a high level of reliability, and that they can be applied to students. It is concluded in the research that there is a relationship between environmental awareness and solid waste management, which is shown with the data obtained from the Pearson correlation coefficient (Pearson Correlation = 0.455), which means that it is a regular correlation.

Instituciones: Universidad Privada del Norte