Press release, Wednesday 22nd July 2020
E N V I R O N M E N TA L AT T I T U D E S I N A C O V I D W O R L D - P O L L I N G R E S U LT S The following document summarises the results for the recent polling questions that examines environmental attitudes in a Covid world, with a specific focus on:
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Littering/fly-tipping (Q1 to Q10)
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Plastic pollution (Q11 to Q17)
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Gardening/water saving (Q18 to Q23)
Polling of 3,006 representative UK adults by Censuswide took place between 3rd and 6th July 2020. 23 questions were asked. For the section on gardening/water saving, Q18 to Q23 were open only to the respondents with a garden (defined as “anywhere you keep plants”). This amounted to 2,146 respondents. The document outlines the key statistics from the research.
R E S E A R C H R E S U L T S – L I T T E R I N G / F LY - T I P P I N G Q1. Which of the following best describes how often you have dropped any litter or left any behind anywhere other than in a bin since lockdown measures eased at the start of June?
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85% of respondents have not dropped any litter or left any litter behind anywhere other than a bin since lockdown measures eased at the start of June.
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This rises to 97% amongst those aged 55+ and drops to 65% amongst those aged 1624, so over a third of under 25s admit dropping litter since the start of June.
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Men are almost twice as likely to litter as women, with 20% of men saying that they have, compared with 11% of women.
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Londoners are most likely to litter – 26% say they have, followed by 24% in the West Midlands, wither the majority of other regions coming in between 9% and 12%
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8% have dropped litter once or twice since lockdown measures eased; 4% have done so once a week; 2% have done so two or three times a week. Just over 1% have done