A sustainable territorial challenge: the irreversible impressions on waste and residue management from functional community workshops

The goal of this article is to present a special thought on the strategy of capacitation workshops, as the means for self-awareness and decision making on waste, having a different perspective towards the subject. That way, the research that generated the present document, was established from the research-in-action, generating knowledge and new experiences by ways of physically meeting the waste collectors from the city of Matinhos - Paraná, which was made possible through ANCRESMAT and AMAGEM associations. We dove deep in the sustainable development bibliography, in recent researches that stand for education as the essential means for awareness in regards of the environmental issues experienced during current days. The workshops allowed us to notice that there are special ways to enter those land spaces, interact, and thus, transform actual lives, through an enhanced look to waste and its potential.