La problemática en la generación de residuos del sector urbano en los asentamientos humanos y el rol del Trabajador Social

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to determine the problem in the generation of waste in human settlements that in recent years through the development of human beings has become one of the greatest environmental problems for society; this is a topic of social interest so World Organizations and researchers warn about this problem. The lack of national programs and the invisibility of the population to attend this issue, makes it necessary to participate in the role of the social worker in order to intervene facing this social problem through their functions to empower the community to seek social welfare thus improving social environment and community development. The methodology used during the research process is based on a qualitative and quantitative approach, through the analysis of documents, reports and researches where the main characteristics of the study variables were obtained. In addition, a field and a bibliographic research was developed that allows the approach to the reality with the phenomenon of study and to support the research theoretically. In order to verify the hypothesis, the Spearman correlation was used, which allows to know the degree of association between the variables, therefore, the results showed that there is a connection between the number of members of a family and the amount and types of waste they generate.