After spending a couple of hours weeding a flower bed in front of a Cranbrook downtown building and having to remove hundreds of cigarette butts, this seems like a great idea. Walking into the our regional hospital and seeing the thousands of cigarette butts littering the area this seems like a great idea.
A penny for a butt? 60,000-plus cigarette butts turned in for cash in West End
A penny for a butt? 60,000-plus cigarette butts turned in for cash in West End
By Cheryl Chan, The Province
A penny for a butt? Turns out, there’s plenty of takers.
As part of a push for a provincewide deposit program on cigarette butts, a downtown Vancouver group offered a penny for every returned cigarette butt, or $20 per pound, at the West End’s Car Free Day on Sunday.
More than 60,000 discarded butts were turned in, said organizer John Merzetti of West End Cleanup.
“The whole idea was to prove to the powers-that-be in Victoria that putting a deposit on cigarette butts would work,” said Merzetti. “We had a lineup of 15 people before we started.”
The group quickly burned through its $500 budget, a grant from the Vancouver Foundation, collecting about 52,000 butts in three hours. It used extra funds from donations and popcorn sales to collect another 8,000 or so butts returned by binners.
Apparently the butts can be recycled. Once the toxic substances are removed, they can be used for manufacturing sporting items such a surf boards.
and Adriane Carr is ready to push for a program. It really is a great idea.http://www.straight.com/news/392686/vancouver-green-councillor-adriane-carr-calls-cigarette-butt-deposit-and-refund-program
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