Survey on the Environment

The purpose of our survey was to find out how people are concerned about the environment. We wanted to learn on people's everyday life habits and their impact on the nature. The results of our survey were sometimes surprising; we didn't expect people to be as much environmentally friendly. For example, people dispose in a responsible way of their harmful wastes: 45% of them said that they dispose correctly of their old batteries. Also, 75% of the respondents are aware that paper billing is a big waste of paper and trees. Therefore, they use electronic billing services. Energy-efficient products were bought by 84% of the respondents in the past year. And a majority of 79.2% use electricity to heat their homes over natural gas and oil. But, we found that still a lot of people use their personnal car for daily use. On one hand, the survey met our goal because we could rapidly evaluate people’s habits and their effect on the environment. On the other hand, there was only 25 respondents to our survey, it might no be as accurate as a large scale survey.

Pierre-Luc and Ian

Twenty five people responded to the survey about what individuals do to care for the environment. The questions explore diverse aspects of caring for the environment starting with the use of a motor vehicle and the frequency to recycling habits and habits concerning dangerous waste disposal such as batteries. While analyzing the results of the survey we notice that the car remains the most common method of transportation even though most of the clientele surveyed are students. None of the people surveyed own a Hybrid vehicle which was not very surprising considering the high price tag on those vehicles. We noticed in the survey results that most respondants have the good habit of recycling most of the materials that we come across in our daily lives such as paper, plastic & cardboard. We also noticed that most of the dangerous waste is disposed of in a proper manner by our surveyed students.
Creating a survey is a challenging experience where questions must be worded in a way that leaves no room for various interpretation. If this experience was to be repeated I believe that the surveyed people should come from different backgrounds as I believe that survey results can almost be predicted when the people surveyed all come from similar backgrounds i.e. ENA students. Survey's are amazing and allow the surveyors to obtain an overall picture on any given topic within a fairly small amount of time and minimal effort.

Pascal H