Volusia Tells Smoking Motorists To 'Can It'
New Campaign Begins To Clean Up Streets
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A new campaign is under way in Volusia County to keep motorists from tossing cigarette butts out of car windows.
NewsChannel 2's Dave McDaniel Reports
Coffee cans are being painted and placed around the county to encourage smokers to stop throwing butts on the ground. Not only is it considered littering, but with the continuing drought, it could cause a brush fire.
While pessimists may believe that nothing will make smokers stop throwing butts out of car windows, optimists hope that giving smokers a place to put the butts may encourage them to change their ways, WESH NewsChannel 2's Dave McDaniel reported.
"Hopefully, this will create a little more awareness to the environmental concerns that go along with smoking," Art Haus Foundation spokesman Brad Budd said.
Environmentalists said that a smoker who consumes one pack of cigarettes a day would fill a container approximately six feet tall with cigarettes butts in a year.
"People don't understand that the filter of a cigarette is designed to last forever, so they just toss it out thinking that it will just go away. But it doesn't," Volusia County recycling spokeswoman Margaret Hodge said.
Some drivers complain that all cars are no longer equipped with ashtrays, but they can be found at local auto parts stores at reasonable prices, McDaniel said.
NewsChannel 2's Dave McDaniel Reports
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