Agenda 2030 e o lixo sob uma ótica social: reflexões e proposições de ações informacionais no âmbito das bibliotecas

Abstract

The 193 member states, which make up the United Nations, have made a commitment in 2015 to Agenda 2030, which sets out 17 goals for a sustainable global community, supported by economic, social and environmental well-being, in a balanced and integrated. The Agenda addresses the issue of information in its entirety, being the focus of some goals and assuming the role of guiding the proposed objectives and their implementation in society. This paper deals with the relationship between information, consumption and disposal of products, highlighting the role of information and libraries in the face of consumption goals, from the point of view of Social Sciences, specifically from Librarianship and Information Science. Its general objective is to discuss the role of information and libraries in the context of Agenda 2030, under the focus of the 12th objective, which establishes the goal of conscious production, consumption and disposal in contemporary society. Specific objectives are to discuss Agenda 2030, based on its sustainable development objectives, to reflect on the possible roles of Librarianship and Information Science in the context of this agenda, to address the assumptions related to the information society, society of consumption and waste from an integrative vision and propose activities to be developed by libraries and librarians to promote the 12th objective of Agenda 2030. Understanding all actions as political actions, including the librarian, emphasizing the need for new work positions, in which the critical to hegemonized relations functions as an emancipatory force, of which environmental education is part, and is perceived in this approach as a political education. In order to do so, it observes some aspects of current society through some nicknames attributed to it, such as information society, consumer society and the society of garbage, observing the relations established between them, their contours and intersections, trying to understand the question of garbage as a social problem derived from the behavior of a capitalist society. It was used for both exploratory and bibliographic methodology, without the pretension of exhaustion of the literature given the amplitude of the theme. It also proposes informational actions that can be developed in libraries and information units, concluding with this, the perception of the need to offer possibilities of emancipatory and critical action for the society in its relation to the consumption and the discard of objects.