Analysis of social and environmental practices related to conscious consumption of students from public education of Sertão Pernambucano, Brazil

• Autor(a) principal: Cavalcante, Anna Fernanda Beatriz Amorim
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Outros Autores: Silva, Edevaldo, Tavares, Robson Victor
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Acta Scientiarum Biological Sciences
• Texto Completo: http://www.periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/ActaSciBiolSci/article/view/35855
• topic: human activity; education; sustainability.; 92700004; 7.08.07.00-0

This research aimed to analyze socio-environmental practices related to the conscious consumption of students of Sertão Pernambucano. A total of 174 high school students from two public schools were interviewed through a 29-item Likert-type measurement scale with five response levels. Among the students, 62.4% were female and 37.6% were male, aged between 15 and 20 years. It was found that 5.8% of the students were careful to take into account if the product residues were recyclable, 40.0% showed indifference or little commitment to use as few shopping bags as possible and the minority (8.3%) of the students used to separate the waste by categories. 47.9% of the students affirmed to reuse draft paper and 55.9% save gift paper for future packaging. Few have the habit of watching (24.8%), talking to friends (12.9%) or alerting people (23.2%) about environmental problems or news. Therefore, Environmental Education, particularly, habits related to conscious consumption, needs to be inserted in the school context so that socio-educational actions become a daily practice, improving the expectations of future generations.