No More Naked Butts on the Beach
by George Spyros, New York City, USA on 07.20.07
See if these folks were flaunting sexy butts, then you wouldn't want to get 'em off the beach. Surfers Against Sewage (SAS), Marine Conservation Society and British Naturist campaigners took to a Brighton beach and took a crack at getting out the word. You say but you've told us this before. But it's too difficult to get rid of my cigarette butt when I'm at the beach. Butt, butt, butt...
The incidence of cigarette butts on beaches is on the increase, and here are some facts to explain why that’s such a bad thing:
• Cigarette butts are one of the most commonly found litter items on beaches around the UK.
• They are not biodegradable, but made from 12,000 plastic fibres.
• 1 cigarette butt can take up to 15 years to break down.
• Each cigarette butt can pollute 3 litres of seawater.
• Cigarette butts are often mistaken for food by marine wildlife.
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When I was in Byron Bay Australia I noticed that all the convenience stores had old plastic 35mm film canisters with a sticker saying "keep your butts out of the bay" and was meant for smokers to use on the beach, very cool. Not only cause it was meant to reduce litter, but because it was reusing something that would normally get tossed in the trash.
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Stand up Stand up..........
I'm not a smoker and I do try hard to make the world a better place, but for some reason, seeing those people naked with 'no butts...' makes me want to smoke and throw the butts at them.
SIgh........I'm going outside now to pick up garbage and to try to adjust my attitude.
i promise i will try my best not to litter the beach with butts ...
the pic is really good ... hehe ...
Simple solution.
Dont smoke with filters and it will be better for the environment and smoke marijuana instead, it will be better for you.
In addition to beaches, smokers who drive are also annoying with what they do with their butts. Aside from fouling up my otherwise clean air, they treat the world as their ashtray and flick their lit butts on the road. I often times wonder what is wrong with their ash trays and why they don't fix them if they're broken. Do nearly all smokers have broken ashtrays in their cars? That must be the case since they always seem to flick their butts everywhere but.
Smokers, in general, seem to me to be a nasty arrogant lot. They care not that they foul the air for us non-smokers. They care not if their unseemly butts litter the roads, the sidewalks, or the beaches. They think the world is their ashtray. They seem to care about nothing else.
Don't get me wrong -- I have no problem if a smoker wants to ruin his own lungs. But when they take such a cavalier attitude towards the rest of us -- that's what peeves me. Who made them holier than thou?