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the For-Collectors Program, including the social and economic inclusion of the waste collectors is headed by CIISC (BENSEN 2012). Considering this scenario, the program also gathers actions comprehending qualification, education, technical consulting, social enterprises, support, researches and studies about the lifecycle of goods. The qualification and social inclusion workshops are very common and provide the opportunity to raise awareness from the population and those involved with the environment and sustainability cause. VI. S uccessful S tudy cases on the E nvironmental S ustainability I nitiatives through W orkshops Most of the workshops about recycled materials available in Brazilian towns are used as an educational form of "garbage" reuse and transformation into products that will get a second chance to still exist. The main goal is to make the engaged population aware of the environment cause, so that all participants can understand the importance of this process and make it easy to see how valuable that waste is. Taking this important point of discussion into consideration, the workshops need to develop an Environmental Education system for all ages, in an integration form, with low cost (MEDEIROS, 2015). In addition, according to the author, that initiative can be carried out to schools, or right in local communities and interested families. These are suggested measures that, through educational methods, go against the extreme consumerism of the current society, making it a conscious invitation to look at the serious harms we are causing, if we so continue to act this way, towards the environment. With that in mind, it is possible to foresee the implantation of an Environment Educational system that can bring awareness and interest to students in order to protect and take good care of the environment they live in. A great support that schools have been providing is the workshops of plastic PET bottles, providing ideas and knowledge around the environment preservation, recycling process, the pollution impact, attention to our planet, among other related subjects. Such initiatives cause awareness and thought on students, even those who do not know or discuss the subject in their family households or did not have the opportunity yet to think about the subject. The school environment is the ideal place to spread those ideas and attitudes. Looking at this scenario, it is possible to identify that if the environmental problems are caused by human intervention, it is necessary, through interactive and ideology ways, to pass on the idea of the need that each individual has to become a co-responsible agent for everyone's quality of life (DIAS, 2004). Looking at this new thought in regards of society's waste management, it is clear to see that it is possible to remediate one of these waste management issues, by the method of its selection and reuse, making it possible to move forward on the matter of the environmental sustainability. In accordance to Dias (2004), the Environmental Education's objective is gaining social support, equality and the respect towards the diversity through democratic ways, so that all of the efforts made can actually generate positive outcomes through continuous initiatives. Still through these arguments, the measures chosen to develop the Environmental Education initiative are limited, when it is necessary to be effective as soon as possible, when taking little isolated actions, narrowed down to small groups, they are not sufficient to serve the respective community since such actions are meant to be a collective and collaborative action. Therefore, the learning process through workshops is essential, because through educational classes about disposable materials and recyclable goods, the workshops can be assessed to manufacture several other products using recyclable materials (OLIVERA; SILVA, 2018). According to the aforementioned authors, a great portion of the workshops assessed by students can promote the manufacturing of overstuffed cushion pouffe, making use of plastic PET bottles and tyres, as well as recycled paper to recreate, recycle and reuse those materials. Thus, we believe in the great potential of recycled goods for generating income through the manufacturing of useful products, having the workshops as a starting reference and also having the recycling, reutilising and decreasing of volume if necessary, as their main founding principles for the Environmental Education initiative. This is a way of acting that provokes reality change, since through the Environment Education, the education professional can work on an integration: humans and environment, making people aware that the human being is nature itself and not just a part of it. So, the understanding of the environment student or the oriented individual in the corresponding workshop about the selected garbage cannot be focused only on the theory that waste is completely useless and therefore, harms nature as a whole, but above that, that waste can be reintroduced in this process, being also an income trigger agent and social inclusion factor, an essential criteria for the environmental sustainability initiative. (OLIVEIRA; SILVA, 2018). Having such perspectives as the principle adopted in this study, let us discuss next, the experience obtained with the workshops in Matinhos - Paraná. A Sustainable Territorial Challenge: The Irreversible Impressions on Waste and Residue Management from Functional Community Workshops 1 Global Journal of Science Frontier Research Volume XXI Issue VI Year 2021 29 ( H ) © 2021 Global Journals Version I

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