ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS AND HOUSEHOLD SOLID WASTE IN BASIC EDUCATION STUDENTS

Abstract

The present work is the summary of the research that seeks in the population made up of students of the integrated educational institution No. 33359 of the district of Miraflores Province of Huamalíes, Huánuco Region in the year 2021. Determine the relationship between environmental awareness and management household solid waste; In this work, an exhaustive investigation was carried out on waste and environmental awareness in a school context that has had its fruits in a cross-sectional research process with a correlational design that has followed the steps of a deductive methodology, for data collection a research instrument with two sections associated with each of the variables, the instrument was applied to 60 students of the educational institution where the study is carried out. The data were grouped into dimensions showing their characteristics, the normality test was carried out, resulting in a non-normal distribution, which allows the hypothesis test to be carried out by means of Spearman’s Rho, in the results of said test, the result was affirms the existence of the relationship between environmental awareness and the management of household solid waste.