Resumen:
Culture, from the geographical perspective, is a primary source of identity, which gives an individual the sense of belonging to the place and to value their behavior to care for the environment, the question arises can you change your habits to give it a treatment more effective in the trash and this does not cause problems ?, in this era in which ideologies, economies, poverty have been globalized and where the end of particular ideologies has been proclaimed, submitting to a single type of general norm; To answer this question, a general empirical and evaluative study of the City of Toluca is carried out to know the conception that its inhabitants have of themselves and of their environment, as identity, that takes care of their environment to which they have to be recognized as a territory equipped, organized that of the possibility of interpreting their way of thinking by symbols.