Attitudes to Questions of Environmental Protection 1994

Attitude to environmental protection and waste disposal in Eastern and
Western Germany. Topics: 1. Questions on environmental protection: most
important political problem of the country; satisfaction scale for the
Federal Government and the Federal Ministry for the Environment;
assessment of the development of the environmental situation;
perspective for environmental conditions in the eastern part of the
country as well as in the west of Germany; most important environmental
problems for the future; classification of automobile emissions,
coal-fired power plants, private heating, industrial facilities as well
as garbage incinerating plants as most important source of air
pollution; importance of environmental policy measures in the area of
maintaining clean air, protection of inshore waters, noise protection,
trash disposal, soil protection, protection of the ozone layer, sources
of energy and education to conduct appropriate for the environment
(scale); perceived noise pollution through automobile traffic, air
traffic, train traffic, industrial noise, loud neighbors or a sport
facility; judgement on the effort of the municipalities, the
government, business, industry, citizen initiatives and citizens for
environmental protection (scale); desire for more laws to protect the
environment; adequate surveillance of observance of environmental
protection laws; preferred responsibility in surveillance of the laws
for the federal government, states or municipalities; attitude to the
demand of the environment summit in Rio for increased expenditures by
the Federal Republic for environmental protection measures in the third
world; attitude to an environmental tax for users of gasoline and
preferred amount for such a tax; attitude to a speed limit on freeways;
preferred maximum speed limit on freeways; attitude to centers of town
free of cars; experience with traffic jams in the last month; traffic
jams on the way to work; preference for road construction or reduction
in the number of motor vehicles to reduce traffic jams; attitude to
expansion of the local public passenger transport (OEPNV), the network
of bicycle paths, increasing the cost of driving a car and transferring
freight transport to rail transport; motor vehicle in household;
effects of the gasoline price increase at the start of the year on
personal driving habits; use of vehicle on the way to work and use of a
carpool; most important reasons for not using the OEPNV; motor vehicle
use even with a doubling of the price of gasoline. 2. Questions on
trash disposal: attitude to a significant increase in garbage
collection fees; preference for the construction and use of garbage
incinerating plants or disposal sites; attitude to construction of a
garbage disposal site or a garbage incinerating plant in the vicinity
of residence of respondent; collection point for hazardous waste in the
vicinity; participation in the disposal of hazardous waste such as e.g.
old paint, cleaning solutions and chemicals; assessment of the sense of
separate collection of packaging waste with the green dot; assumptions
about the actual re-use of packaging waste with the green dot;
assessment of a positive future for the Dual System {recycling};
readiness for separate collection of further types of waste;
bio-friendly, eco-friendly, environmentally compatible or blue angel as
orientation for classification of extent to which a product is
environmentally compatible. 3. Demography: living together with a
partner; certainty of one´s own job and jeopardy to job of close
persons; union member in household; religiousness; party inclination
and party identification; party preference (Sunday question); behavior
at the polls in the last Federal Parliament election.