Belfast Bay Watershed Coalition, Butts Be Gone Committee set out downtown butt receptacles
Butt Butler, on Main Street, Belfast, courtesy of Belfast Bay Watershed Coalition and the Butts Be Gone Committee.
Butt Butler, on Main Street, Belfast, courtesy of Belfast Bay Watershed Coalition and the Butts Be Gone Committee.
The streets of Belfast Maine are a bit cleaner in 2020 due to the installation of 14 Sidewalk Buttler cigarette butt receptacles, that have been attached to posts in the downtown area.
“This is indeed very good news because the filter in each discarded butt can contain up to 400 toxic chemicals (such as arsenic and cyanide),” according to a news release from the Belfast Bay Watershed Coalition and the Butts Be Gone Committee. “When discarded cigarette butts wash down our streets into the bay, these toxins pollute the water and poison the creatures who live there.
”This type of litter problem is not an easy fix. If you are a smoker, in the downtown area, please look for a Sidewalk Buttler cigarette butt disposal unit and use it. Not only does it save the bay, but we collect the filters and send them
to a lab for recycling. That is a win for the city, a win for the bay, and a win for the environment.
“Thank you for not littering.”
— The Belfast Bay Watershed Coalition and the Butts Be Gone Committee.
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