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Thursday, January 28th, 2010. Issue 04, Volume 14. SAN DIEGO - The California Highway Patrol, environmental, and fire prevention advocates have launched a newly upgraded Cigarette Litter Hotline, "Hold on to your Butt." This is a public education campaign focused on holding accountable smokers who toss their cigarette butts out of vehicles while navigating San Diego County’s highways. This program will empower county residents to report smokers who illegally discard their cigarettes on the roadways. Utilizing a toll-free hotline, 1-877-211-2888 (BUTT), citizens will be able to record the date, time, and place of the littering, along with the license plate number of observed cigarette litterbugs. Drawing from the information recorded by concerned motorists, the Advertisement Worldwide, an estimated 4.5 trillion cigarette butts are tossed out daily and are the most littered item in the United States. Butts discarded on sidewalks and streets eventually end up in storm drains, which flow into the ocean. When the butts get wet from contact with a body of water, toxins gathered by the filter are released. This threatens the quality of the water and many forms of aquatic life. In addition, littered cigarette butts are a fire risk and have caused significant wildfires in the past.
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Finally! I am so Happy!!!!!!!!!
I was unaware that one needed a special program to report lawbreakers
How about a penalty of losing your driving license for 6 months and doing 6 months of community service if the cops see it? The moron smokers who toss their lit butts out think the world is their ash tray to burn.
What good is a 'warning letter'? Sounds like a waste of time and $$$$ to me. These same Butt Tossers are just going to toss them in the trash and a few may purpose to toss them onto the highway as a demonstration of their piss-poor behavior towards the rest of society. Make it an arrestable misdemeanor, tow their vehicle, suspend their driver's license, and stack a mandatory minimum $1k fine on top of it all. Word gets around and that could curtail some of this type of activity. Problem is - only the real dumb ones get caught, because just like speeding and running stop signs they (we) tend not to it when we SEE a cop around.
but what if someone misidentifies the wrong offender? I would hate for someone in front of me to throw a BUTT out their window and have the person behind me call my plate in. I hate these people more than anyone. My brother often writes tickets to these people. It is a dispicable act, but I am just saying...
With our mission to make public smoking receptacles from the filters themselves, and programs like this one, the solution is within the problem... RSA-Ashtrays from Cigarette Butts A self sustaining, perpetual,educating nonprofit solution to the devastation of irresponsible smoking.
Tried to call the hotline to report a litter bug flinging a cigarette only to find out (unfortunately) that the mailbox was full on the 877 number. Will try later but one would think that an email address could be supplied to supplement the phone number. |
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