Contributo das estratégias de educação ambiental para redução de resíduos no Polana Serena Hotel

Abstract

The present study is a contribution on environmental education strategies to reduce waste at Polana Serena Hotel. This study tends to understand if the hotel as environmental education strategy’s to reduce the waste. The research is based in the qualitative approach, adopting as technical procedures a field investigation, in which the methods of data collecting were: semi-structured interviews and systematic observations, supported by the model of Federation of Impacts of São Paulo State (FISPS). The samples were not based on convergence probability, having evolved seven workers of the Polana Serena Hotel. The results reveal that the organization has strategies of waste management, as well as partnership with entities responsible in managing waste and singular people. For this reason, none significant to significant impacts occur in the Hotel. The strategies of waste management in the hotel are based in the promotion of practice linked to the rational use of natural resources, hygienic and safety in the work for the workers To sum up, the strategies of environmental education contribute to a new environmental approach devoted to develop local activities related to Environment Education, as is the case of education on hygienic and safety in the work. The recommendations are related to environmental education practices evolving all collaborators of the Polana Serena Hotel