Attitudes to Questions of Environmental Protection 1993

Attitude to environmental protection and waste disposal. Topics: 1.
General judgement on environmental protection problems: behavior at the
polls in the last Federal Parliament election (Sunday question);
personal election participation; city size; satisfaction with the
achievements of the Federal Government and Ministry of the Environment
in Bonn (scale); most important problems in Germany; assessment of
current environmental conditions; perspective for environmental
conditions in the eastern part of the country as well as in the west of
Germany; willingness to sacrifice income for the benefit of improvement
in environmental conditions in Germany; most important environmental
problems; most important future problems; 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, protection of the soil, protection of the
ozone layer, energy sources, education to conduct suitable for the
environment and protection of nature (scale); perceived noise pollution
from automobile traffic, airplane traffic, train traffic, industrial
noise, loud neighbors, or a sports facility; assessment of the effort
of the municipalities, government, businesses, industry, citizen
initiatives and the citizens for environmental protection (scale);
desire for more laws to protect the environment; assessment of
surveillance of observance of environmental protection laws as well as
responsibility regarding surveillance; attitude to a step-wise increase
in gasoline price and preferred annual rate of increase; preferred
highest price; 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 eliminate traffic jams; attitude to expansion of
local public passenger transport (OEPNV), network of bicycle paths,
increasing the cost of driving a car, transferring freight transport to
rail transport; possession of a vehicle in household; vehicle use on
the way to work; use of a carpool; car use even with doubling of
gasoline price; most important reasons for not using the OEPNV. 2.
Question on waste disposal: attitude to a significant increase in
garbage collection fees; preference for construction and use of garbage
incinerating plants or disposal sites; attitude to construction of a
garbage disposal site or garbage incinerating plant close to home;
presence of collection points for hazardous waste and use of these
collection points; attitude to separate collection of packaging waste
and assumption of reuse; preference for disposable packaging or
returnable bottles at the same price or alternatively with more
expensive returnable bottles; attitude to a prohibition of disposable
packaging for beverages; biological, ecological, environmentally
compatible or blue angel as orientation for environmentally compatible
products; paying attention to the blue angel when shopping; readiness
to pay more money for products with the blue angel; 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;
party preference.