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NetWaste Scrap Together Project

1.How often, if at all, do you personally do each of the following activities at home? Please select one answer on each line.
Prepare meals in the kitchen
Clean up the kitchen after meals
Take out recycling from the kitchen
Take out left-over food scraps from the kitchen
Every day
Most days each week 
A few times a week 
About once a week 
A few times a month
2.Which, if any, of the following Council-provided waste services do you have at your home? Please select one answer on each line.
Yes
No 
C/S
Garbage bin (usually a red lid)
Recycling (usually a yellow lid)
Organics for garden and other waste (usually a green lid)
3.What is your age?
4.What is your gender?
5.Using the scale below, how responsible, if at all, do you think each of the following people or groups should be for reducing the amount of waste that is sent to landfill? 0 = not responsible, 10 = very responsible, DK = Don't know
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
DK
You personally
Residents in this Council area
Businesses in this Council area
The Local Council
State Government
Federal Government
6.How do you or members of your household usually dispose of the following types of household waste? Please select all disposal methods that apply to each waste type.
Red Garbage bin
Yellow lid recycling bin
Green lid bin
Compost (home or community)
Return and Earn
Feed to animals/pets
Recycling service
Other
Don't know
Any type of food scraps
Soft plastics such as wrappers and bags
Paper and cardboard
Glass jars such as jam jars, plastic bottles such as sauce bottles, etc
Beverage containers, such as beer and soft-drink bottles and cans
Garden waste/plant cuttings
7.Thinking now specifically about food scraps: which disposal method do you mostly use for the following food waste types/scraps?
In the red lid Garbage bin
In yellow lid Recycling bin
In green lid Organics bin
Elsewhere
I never have this food waste
Meat
Fish and other seafood scraps
Bones
Fruit/vegetables etc
Bread and pastry products
Pasta, rices, pulse etc
Pantry Long-life packaged foods
Dairy products
Takeaway/home delivery food
Leftover cooked food
8.To what extent, If any, were you aware that households in your local government area are allowed to put all of their food scraps into their green lid organics bin?
9.Previous research has shown that some people have issues or concerns about putting some or all of their food scraps into their green lid organics bin - even those who put food into their organics bins may have issues or concerns.
Not a concern
Minor/Small concern
Major/Big concern
We don't have a separate bin/caddy for kitchen food scraps
Green lid Organics bin is only collected weekly so starts to smell
Don't like/want loose food scraps in the green lid organics bin
Food scraps in the green lid organics bin may attract flies, cockroaches, rats etc
Don't like/want food scraps on the kitchen bench
Food scraps in a bin or caddy in the kitchen may attract flies, cockroaches, rats etc
Food scraps in a bin or caddy in the kitchen may start to smell
No room in kitchen for food scraps collection
Too much effort to separate food scraps in the kitchen and dispose of
It's too messy/fiddly trying to scrape food scraps off plates into a small bin or caddy
It's too messy/fiddly to empty jars and containers of out-of-date food into a small bin or caddy
We aren't sure which food scraps can go in the green lid organics bin
Our green lid organics bin is very often full of garden waste, so there is no room for food scraps
Our green lid organics bin is occasionally full of garden waste, so there is no room for food scraps
10.Please leave a name and email address if you would like to go in the draw to win one of two $100 Bunnings vouchers.