Estudo das queimadas domésticas no bairro Parque Bom Viver I em Araguaína - TO.

Abstract

A major problem affecting the environment are caused fires in urban areas today. The high generation of waste from the households entails a very ancient cultural practice, but widely used, is that the burning household waste. Observing this situation and seeing that the city of Araguaína-TO practice is often used, appeared intended to show through a sector, the reality of many others who face similar problems. The researched sector was the park Healing, which borders with Barros and Maracanã sectors. Surveys were conducted in the field, photographic register, interviews and questionnaires with residents and analysis of some authors that address the issue of environmental education. In field visits became apparent lack of awareness of local residents, and found a high rate of people setting fire to garbage and vacant lots with antlers remains. So even the industry relying on garbage collection three times a week, where you can make the collection of all the material generated in their homes and contribute to non-proliferation of diseases caused by the accumulation of garbage, for example dengue, zika virus, kala azar, and many other diseases. Yet it is extremely important to study here performed with the profile and the opinion of some residents, where one has the results identifying the lack of campaigns to intensify environmental education into the mainstream of society.