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Impact of Waste Management Education at Smu Witama Pekanbaru Students
Summary
This paper describes the impact of a waste management education program on students at a school in Pekanbaru, Indonesia. Teaching students about responsible waste disposal, including plastic, helps build a generation more conscious of the microplastic pollution that improper waste management causes.
This article discussed the impact of waste management education on students of SMU Witama Nasional Plus Pekanbaru. Schools are a great place to increase public knowledge about waste and the impact of waste. The environment of Witama National Plus is known to be clean, free from garbage, and has carried out waste selected in the trash can. This research is qualitative research conducted in May – June 2023. Data was obtained through class meetings, where 30 female students were gathered in one class to be given knowledge about waste management, and discuss waste management at school. Students are given pre-test and post-test questionnaires. After that, monitoring the improvement of waste management in schools was carried out. Data analyzed qualitatively and tabulatively displayed. The results of questioner and monitoring are known to change student attitudes toward treating waste, first, there is an increase in student knowledge of management litter; Secondly, there is an increase in waste management in terms of personal waste disposal of students based on the type of waste and waste management plans as activities Student Council. Based on these field findings, it can be concluded that student education has a positive impact on changing students' attitudes toward waste. This research contributes to the field of environmental technology.
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