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:

 

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The program made a big difference in our city. Inspired by the program results, more merchants started installing ash receptacles.

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Susan Roderick,
Quality Forward/KAB Asheville-Buncombe County, NC

 
What You Can Do

In 2008, communities implementing a Cigarette Litter Prevention Program on average cut cigarette butt litter in half.  Some reported as much as a 73% reduction. MORE >>

Looking for a model cigarette butt litter law? Check out Tennessee’s and South Carolina's.