ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION Environmental education is crucial in ensuring that the waste management action plan succeeds. The survey results suggest that residents have a basis for understanding the importance of solid waste management. Nobody claimed that they burn, bury, or throw their solid waste into streets, waterways, or sewage systems according to the Taubman Team survey results. Virtually all survey respondents reported that they take their trash out to the collective dumpster. Survey results are inconsistent with direct observation findings. The discrepancy in findings may suggest that individuals know that waste should be disposed of properly and feel embarrassed to respond honestly since their behavior does not reflect their notions of what is correct. Environmental educational programming is an additional way to support the other waste management interventions and help promote and sustain a culture around environmental stewardship in Ocupação Anchieta.
158 Rain Barrels Timeline.
258
The purpose of the educational component is, ultimately, to change behavior. Behavior is changed when personal, internal contentment results from engaging in a new behavior (De Young, 2000). The type of educational programming recommended involves face-toface interaction. Although signage, and other forms of one-way communication, play a role in raising awareness around solid waste issues, a more personal form of education is more impactful because justifications for littering can be explored, criticized and discussed in further depth with greater specificity. Nonetheless, these two forms of communication support one another (Hansmann and Steimer, 2015). Additionally, through educational programming, residents may be able to
