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Striving For A Butt Free Bass CoastOver 1000 interviews have been conducted with smokers and 500 personal ashtrays distributed to help make the Bass Coast Butt Free. By Bass Coast - 7th February 2007 - Back to News The high profile Butt Free Bass Coast campaign continued in San Remo last week in a bid to encourage smokers to take responsibility for their litter.
The project is an initiative of the Bass Coast Shire Council in partnership with the Butt Littering Trust.
Bass Coast Shire Mayor, Cr Neville Goodwin has thrown his support behind the campaign.
"The Butt Free Bass Coast program will go a long way towards helping to keep our magnificent beaches healthy and clean," said Cr Goodwin.
"This campaign gives visitors and the local community the opportunity to make a difference."
Educators engaged spectators and participants at the San Remo Channel Challenge event in an effort to reduce the number of cigarette butts washed into Western Port Bay.
Bass Coast Shire Council Environment Project Officer, Clare Landry, said that the cigarette butt problem doesn’t stop when they hit the ground.
"Cigarette butts on the street end up in our local waterways after being washed into stormwater drains.
"As well as polluting our rivers and beaches, butts are simply aesthetically unsightly," said Ms Landry.
"Through the project we hope more smokers will take responsibility for their cigarette butts, by always remembering to ‘Please butt it, then bin it" Ms Landry continued.
Environmental Street Performers were on hand to reinforce this message with the colourful characters Little White Russlyn Bag and Kerbside Kev.
Melbourne Water’s Active Catchment Education Trailer, a captivating 3-D scale model of an urban catchment, was also on display to demonstrate that litter dropped in our streets ends up in our local waterways via the stormwater system. The audience actively suggested ways to keep our waterways and bays healthy and clean.
Businesses are invited to support the program by displaying posters, installing wall mounted butt bins on their premises and giving out personal ashtrays to customers. Wind proof ashtrays are also part of the Butt Free campaign and will be distributed to café’s on renewal of their outdoor eating facility permit.
Businesses interested in participating in the campaign should contact Council’s Environment Project Officer, Clare Landry (03) 5671 2211 or (03) 5951 3311.
The campaign continues until April 2007.
Facts on Butt Litter
- Cigarette butt litter makes up over 50% of all items littered in public places around Australia
- 95% of the litter on beaches comes from suburban streets through the stormwater system
- One in ten cigarette butts end up in our waterways
Source: www.gippsland.com Published by: news@gippsland.com
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