The Center for Disease Control and Prevention released a report on Thursday that concluded the number of movie scenes depicting smoking has fallen an astonishing 49% since 2005. Compared to 3,967 incidents of tobacco use in the prior poll, the more recent films evaluated featured only 1,935 such incidents. The

LITTER enforcement officers are cracking down on smokers who drop their butts in the streets of Cheltenham – and 28 have already been caught. They were handed £80 fixed penalty notices by council workers who have been patrolling the town since April. Notices have also been given out for dropping

s the new school year starts, the University is touting our environmentally friendly green policies more than ever. In reality, however, there are quite a few practices that happen on campus every day that are nowhere near being green. Outside the UC Satellite there are three recycling cans for aluminum

Keep Brunswick County Beautiful, a nonprofit organization that aims to get residents involved in improving their communities, has focused the attention of its cigarette litter prevention program on the Oak Island pier. The group has placed eight free-standing cigarette butt disposal receptacles around the pier and also gave about 200

This phrase from the popular Phil Harris song back in the 50's and 60's lamented cigarettes and the health problem they caused. The second line to that song is "Puff, puff, puff and if you puff yourself to death, tell St. Peter at the Golden Gate that you just hated

For 21 days, I will be collecting garbage on my daily walks and sharing with you a few photos of my fascinating findings, my captivating collection, some garbage-specific research, and numerous thoughts about the experience. I originally intended to write about the local landfill today, but instead, I decided to

Cigarette butts, that are thrown down, litter our streets, our yards, and our neighborhoods. The polymer acetate filters, that are in cigarette butts, take about 15 years to break down. Discarded cigarette butts can be harmful, even fatal, to the birds and animals that eat them. They mistake the cigarette

CIGARETTES are not just bad for your health but also for the environment. The sight of a cigarette butt is a common one, not just in Worcester but across the country and even the world. It is so common, people walking past don’t even notice them most of the time.

Residents of Winnipeg's Osborne Village are being asked to butt out their cigarettes in special containers as part of an effort to tidy-up the neighbourhood. Two groups — Take Pride Winnipeg and the Osborne Village Biz — are installing cigarette litter receptacles in seven locations.

How, exactly, do major household appliances make their way to Santa Cruz County beaches and riverbanks? Why did volunteers find 35 percent more cigarette butts on last September’s Annual Coastal Cleanup Day compared with the year before? Who dumps tires in the river anyway, or batteries or tampons or toys?