Title: A sustainable territorial challenge: the irreversible impressions on waste and residue management from functional community workshops

Authors: Marcia Regina Rodrigues da Silva Zago; Alexandre Dullius; Maclovia Correa da Silva; Elisangela C. de Pinheiro Leite Munaretto; Andressa Rando Favorito

Addresses: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Tecnologia e Sociedade da Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, Brazil ' Programa de Pós-Graduação em Tecnologia e Sociedade da Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, Brazil ' Programa de Pós-Graduação em Tecnologia e Sociedade da Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, Brazil ' Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, Curitiba – PR, Brazil ' Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, Curitiba – PR, Brazil

Abstract: The goal of this article is to present a special thought on the strategy of capacitation workshops, as the means for self-awareness and decision making on waste, having a different perspective towards the subject. That way, the research that generated the present document, was established from the research-in-action, generating knowledge and new experiences by ways of physically meeting the waste collectors from the city of Matinhos - Paraná, which was made possible through ANCRESMAT and AMAGEM associations. We dove deep in the sustainable development bibliography, in recent researches that stand for education as the essential means for awareness in regards of the environmental issues experienced during current days. The workshops allowed us to notice that there are special ways to enter those land spaces, interact, and thus, transform actual lives, through an enhanced look to waste and its potential.

Keywords: recycled waste; sustainable territories; community workshops; waste and residue management; Matinhos/PR Brazil; recyclable waste in Brazil.

DOI: 10.1504/IJSSOC.2025.145602

International Journal of Sustainable Society, 2025 Vol.17 No.1, pp.1 - 15

Accepted: 26 Oct 2022
Published online: 09 Apr 2025 *

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