LIXO E IMPACTOS AMBIENTAIS PERCEPTíVEIS NO ECOSSISTEMA URBANO / Garbage and perceptible environmental impacts in urban ecosystem

This article has as thematic the garbage and considerations about certain perceptible environmentalimpacts that the solid residues enlarge in fragments of the urban environment. We approached negativeenvironmental impacts caused by the use forms, customs and perceptible cultural habits in cities ofBrazil. We register that the garbage impacts negatively certain urban environments, as street marginsand river-beds, provoked by the existence of habits of inadequate final arrangement of residues. Weshow part of environmental perception of social actors in Medianeira city – West of Paraná – Brazil –concerning garbage.