
Champion cigarette litter prevention
Start in your neighborhood.
Look around. Understand your community’s ethic around the cigarette litter issue. Take a quick assessment:
- Where is cigarette litter impacting the community’s quality-of-life, economy, and neighborhood? Where are the areas of greatest need?
- Find out about local litter laws. Do they exist? Are they enforced? Do they target cigarette litter?
- Identify stakeholders. Seek out individuals or groups in the community who may be motivated to reduce cigarette litter. Start talking to them and share your concerns.
Start a Cigarette Litter Prevention Program. Create a prevention program in your community. It’s doable. It gets results. We’ll show you how:
- Implement a Cigarette Litter Prevention Program. Step-by-step instructions to make it happen.
- Settings for program implementation. Understand the locations where cigarette butt litter is likely to occur.
- Downloadable resources. No need to reinvent the wheel. It’s all here.
My first words to anyone thinking of developing a Cigarette Litter Prevention Program for any roadway are 'do it!' |
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Adam Roberts, |
During 2012, 195 communities implementing a Cigarette Litter Prevention Program reported an average 55% reduction in cigarette butt litter. MORE >>
Looking for a model cigarette butt litter law? Check out Tennessee’s and South Carolina's.
Over the past six years, the Cigarette Litter Prevention Program has consistently cut cigarette butt litter by half in the first 4-6 months after implementation. Survey results also show that as communities continue to monitor the program, those reductions are sustained or even increased over time. Get sustainability survey results
