No Butts

FREE portable ashtrays are being given away in Forest Heath this summer, in a campaign to ensure that cigarette ends are properly disposed of.
Forest Heath District Council and St Edmundsbury Borough Council are working in partnership on the No Excuses campaign. Councillor Peter Stevens, Chairman of the councils' Joint Waste Committee, said: “As part of our No Excuses campaign we are combating the myths around litter. Some people think that as cigarette ends are so small they are quick to degrade and it doesn’t matter if they leave them on the ground. In fact they are made from plastic and can take 80 years to break down. And being difficult to pick up, they tend to accumulate, blocking drains and leaking contaminants. Sweeping them up is a cost born by all Council Taxpayers, although only a small number of people litter.”
The two councils have also joined forces with local publicans to end the blight of dropped cigarette butts. They are doing this by targeting smokers in pub gardens across the district, providing posters, beer mats, personal ash trays and wall mounted cigarette bins to get the message across.
Free portable ash trays are available from Forest Heath District Council's Mildenhall offices in College Heath Road

.The No Excuses campaign will take to the streets this month with the anti litter message and free portable ashtrays being distributed on Tuesday 16 June in Newmarket, Thursday 25 June in Brandon and Friday 26 June in Mildenhall..
For more information about the campaign in Forest Heath please call 01638 719284, or email sort-it@forest-heath.gov.uk or visit the website www.forest-heath.gov.uk