A South East Queensland region-wide campaign to reduce the large number of cigarette butts entering our waterways every year (estimated at 7 billion nationally) was coordinated by Healthy Waterways last summer.

The Butt Litter Campaign was launched on the 14th of December 2005 in Brisbane and other locations in South East Queensland from Noosa to the Gold Coast and Ipswich.

Many of these chemicals are trapped and concentrated in cigarette butts. These chemicals leach into the environment when the butts breakdown contaminating our water, land and animals.

Millions of dollars are spent each year to clean up cigarette butts or stop them from being littered. The costs include the placement and servicing of bins, placement of pollution control devices, cleaning operations (such as street sweeping) and the costs of educating people about the problem.

Cigarette butt litter is unsightly making our favourite parks and waterways less enjoyable. Littered streets make people less likely to go to tourist locations and make our homes and business areas less appealing.

Personal ashtrays

To obtain these items, please contact the Secretariat on (07) 3403 4206.