Environmental Education of a transforming nature of the Environment

Even if environmental education still receives more attention today compared to the last decades, there is still much to be understood. It is still treated in a disconnected way as if the environmental issues were only correlated to natural environments, disconnected from urban centers. Thus, this compilation deals with the importance of environmental education incorporated into the routine and capable of transforming its environment, beginning in childhood, favored by the phases of cognitive, affective and natural development. It brings a brief history of garbage, which highlights the need for its management still in prehistory. Frequently neglected, it becomes an important point to be managed in a sustainable and behavioral way. Rethinking consumption and reuse patterns is essential. This compiled defends environmental education inserted in the routine, in the construction of patterns and conducts of sustainable consumption that presupposes the maintenance of life, health and welfare of the living communities of the planet, especially the human.