Environmental Awareness: A Little Step to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Marisa Christina Tapilouw

Universitas Kristen Satya Wacana
Salatiga, Indonesia

Abstract

Generation Restoration as a theme of World Environment Day could be an important moment for making our environment sustainable. Environment restoration could be succeed if everyone have environmental awareness as a reflection of sense of belonging to environment. One of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is ^Clean Water and Sanitation^. Previous research about Science teacher^s perspective about environmental problem, revealed that waste is the main environmental problem. And also environmental problem form student^s perspective. In this research, there are three main idea based on student^s perspective: kind of waste, how to manage waste and the concerns about natural environment during pandemic Covid-19. The major respondents are students and teachers. The results showed that waste sorting can be done with environmental awareness and green attitude. Environmental awareness as a key of waste management, that can support little step to achieve Sustainable Development Goal^s.

Keywords: Environmental Awareness, Waste, SDGs

Topic: Science Education