Reporting Litterers
Let people know you caught them littering! If the person resides in
one of the participating States (PA, TX and NC), the person reported will
receive a letter from the State notifying them they were caught littering
and fines for littering, though no fine levied.
If your State does not participate, we'll try to email the Governor and
ask them to join each time you report a litterer!
Litter Fact
At the close of its third year of operation, the Litter Hotline had close to 400 steady callers who regularly reported Litterbugs and other litter problems.
Voice Recorder
You can only report LitterButts if you don't wrap your car around a tree recording their license plate.
Mike Takes Up Cigarette Litter Cause
I am currently in a contest hosted by Timberland with there EarthKeepers site, to be a Change Agent, to help finance a great environmental cause...anyone that is environmentally conscious, please check out my site:
http://www.changents.com/ResponsibleSmokersAct
then register and "back" my "cause". If i get enough attention i might be able to make this life long dream of mine, come true. I was born on Earth Day of '78 and from about 13 years i have tried to gain interest in someone else to help for this non profit.
My organization hopes to educate on the environmental impact of cigarette litter. But what makes this idea unique, is that i want to collect cigarettes to make cigarette collection facilities out of them. which in turn print educational material on them....in a way a self-sustaining perpetual infrastructure.
Anyone that smokes or just hates cigarette litter or environmental hearted please join me and help make Responsible Smokers Act a reality
I am asking for obvious partners of sponsors, lawyers, accountants,web designers, graphic artist, photographers, environmental and civil servants, please if you think you can offer anything that would solve the problem of cancerous materials being littered by the trillions into everyday surroundings.
I will give anyone a chance to do there part for the Earth
If you have seen the movie Erin Brocovich. the environmental moral of that story is... Sometimes small doses, administered over a long time, makes our bodies absorb the same chemicals as if you where to smoke the original cigarette itself.
* Cigarette pollution cost millions to our public utilities in each state.
* Animals can very easily dies from the ingestion of small amounts of Butts.
* Cigarettes are made from cellulose Acetate, which is a host for the Bioaccumulotoxins, which delivers those thousand of cancerous chemicals to everywhere humans exists, our environment!
This seems to be the decade of GREEN living, i hope this gives me my chance to form a group to make a great impact on the world!!
Please re-post this to any Green person or smoker
Responsible Smokers Act
www.changents.com/ResponsibleSmokersAct
www.myspace.com/Earthday78
Thanks everyone!
Mike Davis
Organic Gardening
I'm finding that with the "green movement", organic products are surging and this goes hand-in-hand with LitterButt's
philosophy of cleaning up the environment. I'm not abandoning the fight here, just increasing the awareness of environmental
abuse and giving alternatives.
One of those alternatives is organic, non-toxic
pest control. An avid gardener here I don't use chemicals or toxic pesticides to control the insects in my garden and my
plants typically suffer for it. With these organic, non-toxic pest controls you can have the best of both worlds without
ruining the one we live in.
shop today
Organic & Fair Trade Coffee
What's the big deal with coffee, right? Americans drink more of the stuff than any other country -- and the coffee grounds
are good for the garden, right? The problem is two-fold: pesticides used in cultivating the coffee crop and the large
coffee chains (sounds like SmarStucks) who drive the cost of coffee down in developing nations but charge a premium for each
cup. Organic and Fair Trade Coffee
ensure that your coffee is pristine and chemical-free -- and the growers are getting their fair share of the cost.
sip organic fair trade coffee today
Tree Givers - Plant a Tree Today
Ideal Bite has educated me about the amount of
oil-based products we use including lotions nad "beauty products" including things like much lip balm, an essential in
winter... made from oil! Well, thesenatural skin
care products help take the worry out it by offering natural products you can trust..
eco-friend smooth skin today
Tree Givers - Plant a Tree Today
One of the simplest things you can do for the environment is plant a tree
to not only clean our air but provide beautification... and you can do it online if you don't want to get out and do it
yourself.
plant today
Fun, Free Eco-Living Tips
LitterButt was created out of environmentalism and frustration so I wanted to share one of the online sites
that helps with ideas on how to be eco-friendly. I've changed all of my light bulbs to low-wattage bulbs,
turn off electronics when not in use and keep my air/heating at reasonable levels on electronic thermostats.
What else is there, right?
I registered for Ideal Bite and was
surprised to find more ideas... everything from eco-friendly, sustainable products to purchase online to
increasing the mileage on my car.
Reduce plastic by reusing aluminum, non-toxic, water-based resin lined bottles online... purchase
100% organic cotton apparel... rethink that styrofoam take-out container - styrofoam is made using
cancer-causing benzene and the brain-toxic styrene!
register today
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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Previous Users - Please Read!
The previous site did not require you to register and create an account. Please do not
email me or try to looking your account because it did not exist in the old system.
Please take a few minutues to create a new account and verify your email. You will then be
able to import your old reports and continue reporting.
Cheers...
Chris
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