This education program has a range of resource materials available for use by your organisation to mount a campaign to motivate your staff, customers and visitors to dispose of cigarette butts responsibly.
Keep Australia Beautiful can provide you with an education program tailored specifically for your organisation or business which includes posters, staff surveys, mock fines, pocket ashtrays and information on the environmental impacts of butts for a display.
What’s the link?
Changing legislation and Occupational Health and Safety practice in Western Australia requires smokers to go outside buildings if they wish to smoke. The Tobacco Control Act 2006 prohibits smoking in all enclosed public places including those on licensed premises.
Appropriate action to prevent an increase in cigarette butt litter in surrounding areas must also be taken.
There is an increasing trend for cigarette butt litter to be found in outdoor places. Litter counts conducted by Keep Australia Beautiful show cigarette butts to be the most frequently recorded type of litter in Western Australia. Annual surveys show that they account for approximately 50 per cent of litter by item.
Employers in all sectors, public transport operators and commercial building designers and owners all have a part to play in managing and preventing cigarette butt litter.
Register your interest in the Bin Your Butt program
You will be contacted by a KABC Project Officer; alternatively you can order resources from our website.
