Keep Natchitoches Beautiful and Keep Louisiana Beautiful Team Up To Reduce Cigarette Butt Litter

IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Alicia M. Rachal

arachal@natchitochesla.gov

 

Keep Natchitoches Beautiful and Keep Louisiana Beautiful team up to reduce cigarette butt litter.

Keep Your Butts in Your Pants 

 

July 25, 2019, Natchitoches, LA Keep Your Butts in Your Pants is a campaign aimed to reduce cigarette butt litter by distributing pocket ashtrays to smokers and encouraging them to properly dispose the butts. 

 

Keep Natchitoches Beautiful has recruited several convenient stores and gas stations in Natchitoches to partner and implement this campaign.Please refer to the list below to receive a free pocket ashtray with a tobacco purchase. 

 

Free pocket ashtrays are available at these locations:

• Tobacco Warehouse located at 834 Keyser Avenue
• Shop Rite located at 247 Keyser Avenue
• McFarland Center’s Super Stop located at 1207 Texas Street 

 

A cleaner Natchitoches can be accomplished by raising awareness of the cigarette butt litter problem and distributing free pocket ashtrays to smokers. This gives smokers an opportunity to do the right thing by using a pocket ashtray instead of littering the butt.  It is Keep Louisiana Beautiful’s hope that after repeated use of the pocket ashtray that smokers will adopt this new behavior and it will become a habit resulting in a reduction of cigarette butt litter.

 

Cigarette butts remain the most littered item in Louisiana and across the globe. Dropping cigarette butts and cigar tips to the ground, putting them in planters, and disposing of them in waterways is littering.  Littering cigarette butts and cigar tips is unsightly, costly to clean up, illegal and harmful to waterways and wildlife. In fact, 32% of litter in storm drains are tobacco products. Litter traveling through storm drains and water systems, ends up in local streams, rivers, and waterways. 

 

Interesting Facts:

Most cigarette litter occurs in the car or at transition points.

95% of cigarette filters are not biodegradable but the majority of smokers believe that cigarette butts are biodegradable.

Due to cigarette litter’s small size many view it on a different scale than other litter.

 

About Keep Louisiana Beautiful 

Keep Louisiana Beautiful, Inc. is the state’s anti-litter and community improvement organization focused on education, enforcement, awareness and cleanups. Affiliated with Keep America Beautiful, Keep Louisiana Beautiful’s mission is to promote personal, corporate and community responsibility for a clean and beautiful Louisiana. For more information visit www.keeplouisianabeautiful.org. Like KLB on Facebook:  facebook.com/keeplouisianabeautiful or follow KLB on Twitter: @KeepLABeautiful.
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