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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...