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Cigarette Butt litter surveys

Results from BeachPatrol & Love Our Street groups cigarette butt collections

Cigarette Butts

Cigarette Butt litter surveys

The prevalence of cigarette butts as litter has grown unwelcoming large these past few years. The action of dropping a butt on the ground and stamping it out with the foot then leaving it there has become all too common place. Even when ashtrays and bins are within arm’s length, the smokers still drop them on the ground. It has become ‘their’ acceptable behavior. The result is 1000s of butts are littered all over our streets and outside hotels and cafes.

Cigarette Butt Litter Collection Summary

No Of Surveys 2338
Total Butt Count 820552

Cigarette Butt Litter Surveys

It would be unacceptable for any other product but somehow smokers have made this appear normal behavior. Whilst an estimated 11% of the population smokes, this minority group of people cause a serious environmental pollution problem for everyone. This is not acceptable. Further, when the location is near a beach, the storm water drains then wash this toxic litter down on to the beach or into the ocean.

BeachPatrol and Love Our Street are acutely aware of the butt litter reaching our beaches and then the ocean. We conduct cigarette butt litter surveys periodically to ascertain the quantity of butts in some well known areas and report those results to local businesses and councils.

Last 6 Surveys

Carnegie Library Forecourt

501

Butts

3163

Love Our Street

7

No Of People

07:00

Time Spent

Canadian Bay JO

4

Butts

3930

BeachPatrol

2

No Of People

01:30

Time Spent

Safety Beach AM

132

Butts

3936

BeachPatrol

29

No Of People

29:00

Time Spent

Gnotuk LK

201

Butts

3195

BeachPatrol

40

No Of People

40:00

Time Spent

Malvern train station vw

350

Butts

3145

Love Our Street

5

No Of People

05:00

Time Spent

Highett Shops Highett Rd JO

120

Butts

3190

Love Our Street

9

No Of People

09:00

Time Spent