Environmental awareness of the students of technology and engineering

Abstract

Segregation of garbage is very important topic and it could be considered as well known. Moreover it is one of the very important factor, which should be taken into account in order to achieve better and healthier world, as it is stated in the Strategy for Education for Sustainable Development. Therefore it was decided to check whether students have high environmental awareness in context of segregation of garbage and also wheather the knowledge aquired has impact on proecological behaviour of students. The research was carried out by the questionnaires which were collected from 243 students of Pedagogical University of Cracow at various levels of education. It can be concluded that most students do not have basic knowledge concerning segregation of garbage and also they cannot properly asses their knowledge in this field.