Percepção dos servidores municipais do município de Capitão/RS sobre o consumo sustentável

Abstract

Consumerism is a practice applied by man and other living beings since the beginning with the intention to supply the basic necessities. With society development and evolution arose consumerism and, consequently, the environment imbalance due to the uncontrolled consumerism. To try developing the environment awareness, it instituted the “National Policy of the Environment Education. In this context, this study was developed with the intention to evaluate the municipal employees of Capitão /RS about sustainable consumerism. To obtain the datas of this investigation, a questionnaire was applied to the effective employees of the city. Through the results of the research, it is possible to conclude that the majority of the employees of the city understand that their attitudes interfere in the environment quality and that they are responsible for the environment's protection.