“The findings in this report clearly show that the environment is very important to Islanders,” Webster said.

“For some time now, Islanders have been practicing sound environmental decisions when it comes to things like recycling and composting, and we truly are Canada’s green province,” Webster added.

In the report, a nation-leading 64 percent of Island households were deemed “very active” when it comes to household environmental activity.

PEI also had the highest rate of composting (92%) and was tied with Nova Scotia and British Columbia for the highest recycling rate (99%).

“With other initiatives government has taken in the past year, such as opening the Office of Energy Efficiency and establishing the Beverage Container Management System, we anticipate even stronger survey results in the years to come,” Webster commented.

The Households and the Environment Survey collects information on a variety of environmental themes. The study identified six environmental household behaviours: use of reduced volume toilets, use of low-flow showerheads, use of compact fluorescent light bulbs, recycling, composting and lowering temperatures. Households that engaged in four to six behaviours were considered very active.