THE PERCEPTION AND THE ENVIROMENTAL BEHAVIOR FROM THE SERVANTS OF THE WESTERN PARANÁ STATE UNIVERSITY UNIOESTE IN RELATION TO THE BIODIESEL USE

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This article has the purpose of justifying the perception of the servants from the Western Paraná State University Unioeste about the biodiesel use in the energy generation of the institution. For this purpose, it was performed a descriptive research applied to the Unioeste Campus Cascavel servants an instrument adapted from the VAPERCOM model, that identified the servants that have some kind of connection with biodiesel or possible users, being those drivers, labor researchers, machinery technician, physiotherapy's servants from the clinic and their respective superiors. The product was classified considering the steps of the product Life Cycle Analisis (LCA). As result it was observed that the product has a strong ecological characteristic in all life cycle steps, especially at the raw material steps, production process, use and disposal. Whereas the consumers (Unioeste servants) show to have a medium concern about the raw material steps and production process and frequently concern about the product use, allowing investment in the production, application and improvement in the characteristic of this product aiming the ecological capability and different ways of using it. Therefore, it allows the waste capture that has environmental impact and pollutants generator as well contributing with the sustainability and energy economy in the university.