Sistematización de una experiencia educativo-ambiental: paca digestora silva en una comunidad vecinal del barrio Camilo Torres, Duitama – Boyacá

Abstract

One of the environmental problems experienced in Colombia is related to the inadequate management of waste, especially those that correspond to the urban organic fraction. When these organic wastes are disposed of in landfills, they decompose, emitting greenhouse gases and toxic leachates as a result of their mixture with hazardous waste. There is a technique for the local treatment of organic waste called Paca Digestora Silva (PDS) that promotes community environmental education and sustainable waste management. The present investigation took place in a neighborhood community of the Camilo Torres de Duitama neighborhood, Boyacá in the period 2020-2021; which implemented the PDS as a response to the realities experienced in the sector accentuated by the COVID-19 health emergency. The objective of this degree project was to recognize the educational-environmental factors that made it possible for this community to change its practices associated with the management of organic waste through the systematization of the experience, the reconstruction of historicity, identification of actors and lessons learned. . For the systematization, the methodology proposed by Jara was followed and techniques such as community surveys, review of databases and photographic records, semi-structured interviews and analysis of results through the Nvivo software were used. At the end, 34 representative events and 11 key actors were identified that influenced the experience, among them the capacity for self-management, the consolidation of a community garden and the formation of the RADS Colombia organization stand out. Likewise, indicators are obtained from the experience such as the number of PDS produced, tons of waste managed, tons of fertilizer and food produced. This work reaffirms the importance of motivating the creation of informal, intergenerational and democratic spaces for reflection in the territory that contribute to the understanding of the environment and the promotion of an environmental culture as proposed by the National Environmental Education Policy.