A big thank you to all the venues and businesses who are showing their support for the “Bin Your Butt” campaign. We launched this last week as the second part of the Blitz The Butts campaign, which we started in May this year in Swanage. The aim is to bring attention to the problem with cigarette butt litter and ask people to dispose of them properly. We hope to roll out the campaign to other areas in the coming months.
This is a list of the businesses who’ve shown their support so far by displaying at least one of our posters (some have put up three or four):
- The Anchor Inn
- Arkwrights
- Ballard Down Stores
- Barber Shack
- Beach Hut Seafood Bar
- The Beach Shop
- The Black Swan
- Bliss Restaurant
- Burnbake Forest Lodges and Campsites
- The Cellar Bar
- The Co-Op
- Court Hill Wines
- The Crow’s Nest
- Daisy May’s Shopping Arcade
- East Bar
- Ever after
- Foley’s Garage
- Forties Café
- Going For Bust
- Golden Bengal Restaurant
- Harlees
- Harman’s Cross Village Hall
- Hayman’s Bakery
- Health Station
- Fortes Ice Cream Parlour Swanage Bay
- Jenkins Newsagents
- John’s Toyland
- Jurassic Outdoor
- Ladbrokes
- Leonards
- Love Cake
- McColl’s
- The Mowlem Theatre
- Natural Wonders
- Ocean Blue
- The Parade Fish & Chips
- Purl-N-Lace
- Rainbow’s End
- Rainbow Kebab
- The Red Lion
- Saltrock
- Sandie’s Barbershop
- Shoreside
- W.H. Smith
- Swanage Information Centre
- Swanage Insurance Brokers
- Swanage Associated Taxis
- Swanage Mobility
- The Waterfront
- Wine Yard
- Wok Chef
- 4 Moochers
- Yorkshire Building Society
If we’ve missed your business off, please contact us at litterfreepurbeck@gmail.com, with a photo of your poster being displayed, and we’ll gratefully add you to the list. Similarly, if we were unable to deliver a poster to you, let us know and we’ll get one to you. Many thanks.
Butt Facts
Cigarette butts are the most commonly found form of ocean litter, and in 2014 the Ocean Conservancy’s International Coastal Cleanup initiative (ICC) volunteers collected 2m of them.
Discarded cigarette butts are non-biodegradable and they are also the most common form of litter found in beach clean ups. It is estimated that around 4 trillion cigarette ends are discarded across the world each year.
As well as being unsightly, cigarette butts are a toxic contaminant, which leach numerous chemicals including heavy metals, nicotine and ethylphenol in water. Discarded butts pose a threat to animals and people, particularly young children if ingested, which is not uncommon.
Source: ASH Fact Sheet on Tobacco and the environment www.ash.org.uk
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