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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 3404
Total Butt Count 988036

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

Williams Road Canadian Bay Beach E.L

106

Butts

3930

BeachPatrol

10

No Of People

12:30

Time Spent

Sandringham SG

244

Butts

3191

BeachPatrol

17

No Of People

17:00

Time Spent

Long Island JO

82

Butts

3198

BeachPatrol

24

No Of People

24:00

Time Spent

Mothers Bch Mornington

138

Butts

3931

BeachPatrol

10

No Of People

10:00

Time Spent

Hewison Reserve, Balaclava JGS🐧 for JT

499

Butts

3185

Love Our Street

2

No Of People

02:00

Time Spent

Hewison Reserve, Balaclava JGS🐧 FOR JT

499

Butts

3185

Love Our Street

2

No Of People

02:00

Time Spent