Abstract

NUNEZ MORENO, María Soledad; MORENO ALBUJA, María del Carmen; MOSCOSO MORENO, Nathaly Kassandra  and  VELASTEGUI LOPEZ, Efraín. Toxicity assessment of textile wastewater in Ambato: assessment of the knowledge of decision-makers. Universidad y Sociedad [online]. 2023, vol.15, n.2, pp. 306-315.  Epub Apr 30, 2023. ISSN 2218-3620.

The textile industry is the responsible for 20% of the polluted water of the world. The residual waters that are generated as a result of the processes of textile production has high level of given toxicity the use of coloring and textile preservatives not biodegradable. The objective of the deployed investigation consisted on evaluating the knowledge that you/they possess the workers that carry out positions with responsibilities in Ambato, regarding the control of the effective environmental politics’ implementation in Ecuador. The methodology applied in the study is mixed when integrating procedures of the quantitative and qualitative paradigms. It was used, also, the procedure of the descriptive statistic that allowed to categorize the ordinal scales associated to scales of intervals. As a result it was obtained that the selected sample possesses half knowledge of the thematic one in question, for what the training of the workers is recommended that you/they carry out decisive positions.

Keywords : Evaluation of the knowledge; Toxicity; Textile wastewater; Aquatic ecosystems.

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