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Hold On to Your Butts - October 14, 2011

Six Cigarette Butt Receptacles are installed in Point Loma.

The Point Loma Association, in collaboration with I Love a Clean San Diego and the San Diego Chapter of the Surfrider foundation, installed 6 ash receptacles in neighborhood high pedestrian traffic areas today. Local area receptacle studies estimate that the receptacles will collect more than 2,500 cigarette butts each month. This should prevent 2,500 monthly fewer nicotine laden cigarette butts from, not only creating urban litter but, most importantly reaching our beaches and oceans. In San Diego county, cigarette butts have been identified as our most pervasive litter item!

The Point Loma Association is committed to initiate this small but important grassroots effort to educate the public about worldwide cigarette butt litter and pollution. At a cost of approximately $200 each, the containers are made out of stainless steel, designed to be attached to any poles and are easily emptied . If you would like to support an ash can near your business, please contact us at contact@plaweb.org.

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