As indoor smoking bans become more common across the UK, BUTTsOUT UK has conducted successful campaigns with the theme “only smokers can stop cigarette butt litter” in collaboration with pro-active councils such as: Colchester, Preston, Leeds, Liverpool, Birmingham, Dublin, Limerick, Rochdale, Gedling, Croydon, Darlington, Westmeath, Oldham, Rotherham, Stirling, Dun Laoghaire, Falkirk, York, Slough, Guildford, Basingstoke, Bracknell Forest, North Cornwall, Islington, Woking, Swindon, and Braintree. See below for more details
 
BUTTsOUT also supports SAS and The Marine Conservation Society in their campaigns to clean up the beaches around the UK

Preston Council (UK) has cleaned up at the Green Oscars winning Best Practice Category for it’s very cheeky BUTTsOUT campaign. They reduced butt litter by 67% and maintain over 60% reduction 12 months later.

 

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WHY ARE CIGARETTE BUTTS A PROBLEM?  10 things you need to know

HOW TO CHANGE BUTT LITTERING BEHAVIOUR

A SUSTAINABLE SOLUTION

COUNCILS Tips for councils to reduce cigarette butt litter

“Implementing a sustainable cigarette butt litter solution” Multi Council Campaigns

WORKPLACES How to reduce cigarette butt litter outside offices and around the workplace

HOTELS, RESTAURANTS, CAFES How to reduce butt litter and help your customers

RETAILERS How retailers can be involved in reducing cigarette butt litter

WHAT’s IN A CAMPAIGN?

PRESS CENTRE – Stories and features on BUTTsOUT campaigns

 

As concernabout the impact of cigarette butt litter increases in the UK, fines andstories about smokers being caught littering are becoming more prevalent, andmore and more areas are taking action. Read about some of them in our newsletters

 

Based on the principle that “only smokers can stopcigarette butt litter”, BUTTsOUT has conducted successful campaigns already incollaboration with the following councils:

 

ENGLAND

 

Leeds – As part of their “Streetscene”campaign the council launched a major initiative to tackle the problem of over1,000,000 cigarette butts being littered every day on the streets of “England’sfavourite city”. You can see some of the publicity and educational campaignmaterial here and read about thecampaign in more detail on the LeedsCouncil website

 

Rochdale has mounted an extensiveand impressive bus and bus shelter advertising campaign to inform smokers aboutcigarette litter and their BUTTsOUT initiative. Click hereto read the story on the Borough of Rochdale website

 

Gedlingdecided to take on the problem, and although only a small council theircampaign attracted extensive media coverage from local press and on the BBC

 

Woking promoted the BUTTsOUTsolution to smokers, local businesses and retailers. We are heartened that 15months after the campaign we still receive a steady flow of visitors via theBUTTsOUT link on the council website

 

Colchester saw our first linkswith a football club who recognised that the smoking ban in their stadium hadpossibly increased the problem of cigarette litter in the surrounding streets

 

Croydon: Acampaign that started with council litter wardens handing out BUTTsOUT personalashtrays rather than fines, has now developed to a point where the council areactively encouraging local retailers to stock personal ashtrays.

 

Darlington:A small campaign, but run by a council that is being very proactive in findingnew ways to tackle litter.

 

EIRE

 

Dublin City Council launchedthe largest ever European cigarette butt litter campaign with our help. Ourfirst campaign in the Republic, it attracted extensive coverage from nationalTV, Radio and Press. BUTTsOUT ashtrays are now on sale at selected retailers inthe city.

 

Limerick successfully broughtcigarette butt litter to the attention of smokers and non-smokers, and are nowactively promoting our No Butts Outside Buildings (NoBOBs) campaigns tolocal businesses

 

West Meath:A cigarette litter campaign in collaboration with Environet Ireland.

 

Please click here to link to our UK website tosee more detail of these and our other campaigns for workplaces, hotels,restaurants, cafes, outdoor recreation areas, gardens, golf courses and forretailers

 

In the UK,contact to discuss how we can help you reducebutt litter in your area