Sociological determining factors of waste avoidance (FKZ: 3717 34 333 0)
Waste avoidance as a central field of action of modern environmental policy is at the top of the five-step waste hierarchy. Despite numerous environmental policy efforts in recent years, the per capita generation of municipal waste in Germany is increasing. At the same time, the German population is said to have a very high level of environmental awareness. This apparent contradiction between a sufficiently pronounced environmental awareness and the increase in the amount of waste is the starting point for the research and development project. The questions investigated were how waste generation, separation behaviour and waste composition differ between population groups, which population groups have so far been reached by the public discourse on waste avoidance and by other communicative measures, and whether the activities to date to strengthen waste avoidance have changed the waste-related behaviour of consumers.
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