Climate change top of NI public's environmental concerns
Climate change is the number one environmental issue of concern for households in Northern Ireland, according to a government report.
It follows huge focus on the issue in recent years in the media and through the action of climate activists.
Its overtaken illegal dumping which had been the principal concern for almost a decade.
The finding report is compiled annually by the Department of Agriculture Environment and Rural Affairs.
It covers a wide range of topics from biodiversity to waste management and pollution and gives an indication of the state of the local environment.
There are improvements in some areas like overall air quality and recycling rates.
But problems remain, with no improvement in things like the state of the rivers and our levels of greenhouse gas emissions when measured against targets for chosen baseline years.
For the first time, a new indicator was added to the survey, asking people about recyclable waste not being recycled.
Almost one in four households said they were concerned that material that could be reused was ending up in landfill.
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