Graphic Designer Needed
I'm looking for a graphic designer (or designers) to submit proposed new design for the LitterButt websit to make it more current,
easy to expand and visually appealing.
There is also a need to design a few marketing materials including flyers and signs that people can post for us and help increase
awareness.
Please email us and submit your idea!
A Wonderful Email from an Offender - Email Him/Her Your Thoughts!
I sincerely appreciate your website providing an outlet for continued government over-spending and waste. I received a "friendly reminder" from my state recently informing me of the expensive cost of cleaning up our highways due to "litterbugs like me." The letter, along with the time to prepare, mail, and enclose the garbage bag, likely cost more than the cost to clean up a cigarette butt dropped on the highway. Good job! You've not only suceeded at increasing government waste, but also have contributed to distracted driving, as someone took the time to write down my license tag as they were driving. As I type this, I see on your website that at the end of the the third year, the Litter Hotline had close to 400 steady callers who reported litterbugs and other problems. That's 400 more drivers just as distracted as those texting, calling, eating, and grooming themselves while driving... 400 more drivers more concerned with what others are doing rather than paying attention to driving.
Ticked Off
09/22/2011 Update
The error in my ways...
Thank you and all of your fellow LitterButt readers for helping me see the error in my ways. I appreciate you posting my email for all to see (after all, you did warn me you would!). In retrospect, I was in the wrong and will in the future ensure I have an appropriate manner to dispose of my smokes. Now, I respectfully request your removal of my email from the main page in your site so I can sort through the rest of my email in peace. Thanks again.
Ticked Off
09/22/2011 Update
Leave the email up. No need to poll your readers/followers to remove. They'll never agree to take it down anyways. I am, however, a bit flattered to have received so much attention.
I would like to say, though, that you're not sticking to your own warning, which says, "I reserve the right to publish your email for everyone to READ should you choose to ignore this." You say nothing about publishing my address for responses. You should reword your warning to include publishing email adresses as well.
I would have been slightly more "constructive" in my wording and not as sarcastic if I had taken the time to think about it before I sent the email. I quite frankly was "ticked off" when I got the letter in the mail. While I do honestly think you are encouraging bad behavior (wasteful spending and distracted driving) by encouraging folks to hold others accountable, I believe holding people accountable is definitely good. I also agree with what I've found on your website, and understand that general education has not worked (and is not working). Obviously, it didn't work with me until someone called me out on the fact.
I remember as a teenager participating in the local street adoption program and being disgusted on clean up day with what people actually threw from their cars. Cigarette butts are no different, and I admit having lost sight of this.
Remove my email if you wish... leave it up if you wish. Not sure what else to tell you, other than I'd love to move on from this. And... most ironic of it all... the day I got the letter was my scheduled "QUIT DAY."
Ticked Off
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There were many problems with the message forums, maintaining a link between that code and the new site as well
as getting people to use it. It seems as though many people wanted the forums to vent but they weren't being used
when it was finally implemented and so they have been removed from the current version.
Everyone seems to be moving toward social networking, myself included. That said, I've created a Page on
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So What If I Throw My Butts on the Ground? They're Biodegradable, Right?
WRONG!! If you throw your cigarette butts on the ground, they eventually find their way to the ocean and other water sheds and YOU are contributing to the most commonly found man-made waste that originates from land! "The Ocean Conservancy, a nonprofit environmental organization based in Washington, D.C., compiled the results of a shoreline cleanup day conducted by volunteers last year in 68 countries. It covered a combined 34,000 miles of shoreline and collected 7 million pounds of litter, 80 percent of which had been washed from land into the water. Of the 7.7 million items of debris collected worldwide in 2006, cigarettes and cigarette butts accounted for roughly 1.9 million, the sixth consecutive year they have topped the list.
"People think they are biodegradable," said Kathryn Novak, coordinator for the Florida branch of the Ocean Conservancy. They're not, so think before flicking that cigarette butt out the car window."
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Let's get some things straight from the start: Roger Svendsen might be a specialist in addictions, but he is neither burdened with obsessive-compulsive disorder nor arithmomania. He doesn't smoke, and he's also not one of those compulsive hoarders.
You'll need to know this right off the bat, before you find
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No “butts” about it, tossed cigs cause fires.
Along with their namesake bad habit, many smokers have a nasty practice of flinging ashes and lit cigarettes out the window when driving, or emptying their car ashtray onto the road when stopped.
What’s the harm of these inconsiderate acts?
First off,
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Investigators say a discarded cigarette butt caused a fire that displaced the occupants of 12 apartments in Frederick.
The Frederick County fire marshal's office estimates damage at $600,000 from the blaze Thurs
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Cigarette butts are being blamed for a minor house fire on Century Drive.
The Orangeville fire department was called to the home around 8 p.m. on Sunday (Aug. 7). Fire chief Andy Macintosh believes cigarette butts discarded near peat moss surrounding the home caused the fire.
“It looked a lot
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How many of us become annoyed when the driver in front of us tosses something out the window, a cigarette butt in particular?
On Wednesday in Limestone County, the flick of a cigarette caused a bean-field fire near Tanner High School, fire officials suspect. It destroyed about 30 of 52
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