Esra DEVELİ*, Hasan Hüseyin GÜRSOY*, Emrah ÖZÇELİK*, Hasan EMİK*, Gülser YAVUZ*,

 Meryem Nur AYDEDE YALÇIN**, Emine Erman KARA*

   *Niğde University, Engineering Faculty, Environmental Engineering Department, 51245 Niğde-TURKEY

     E-Mail:eermankara@hotmail.com  GSM:05052426417

** Niğde University, Education Faculty, Elementary Education Department, 51245-Niğde-TURKEY

     E-Mail:mnaydede@hotmail.com 

 The importance of education in the development of environmental awareness in society is undeniable and recycling in environmental education has an important place. The substances are in the recycling of packaging waste are located in the front row. The aim of this study is to examine the opinions of Nigde sixth grade students for the recycling of packaging waste in the province. The screening model was used in the research. Sixth grade students studying the research population in the province of Nigde, the sample determined by the random sampling method constitutes 450 sixth grade students studying in five different secondary schools located in the center of Nigde. As data collection tool, the researchers form of recycling packaging waste by developed has been used. Forms preparing domestic and foreign literature scanned Lawsh techniques are used to ensure the validity of expert opinion based on the scope of the scale. The validity of the results of the survey carried out for each substance involved was found to be the lowest number of stories Lawsh validity .70 and 2 substances were removed from the survey. 5 open-ended questions developed questionnaire containing five pieces of personal information for next issue, has three units with a total of 14 questions including multiple-choice questions and one question one pairing. Content analysis and descriptive analysis of the data analysis methods were used. Data is the analysis phase.

Keywords: Middle school students, environmental education, recycling, packaging waste, Nigde-Turkey