Thanks Topeka for helping kick off our Cigarette Litter Prevention Program last week.  Last Thursday we collected 4,430 cigarette butts in three one half blocks of Kansas Avenue.  That number is staggering.  Today we visited every business in those blocks distributing our “No Butts About It  . . . This Is Litter Too” flyers as well as pocket ash trays.

Cigarette litter is the most common piece of litter found in the nation today and it takes 17 years to decompose.  Butts are washed into our streams and waterways releasing toxins.  Not only will this program make a huge difference in our community, but in the environment as a whole. 

Please mark your calendars for August 20th when we will return to the streets and pick up cigarette litter again.  Nationwide, affiliates who have put the program into place have shown a decrease of 50-75% in cigarette litter.  We hope to show a huge decrease when we meet again in August. 

Thanks again to everyone for their commitment to this community effort!

Philicia McKee, Executive Director
Keep America Beautiful--Topeka/Shawnee County
PO Box 750775, Topeka, Kansas 66675-0775
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(785) 235-0845      (785) 290-1105 fax
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