“Butt Buckets” Abound!
Many thanks to the dozens of inspired artists who participated in last year’s Paint a Bucket contest.
Read moreCategory Archives: Cigarette Butts Action
Help Needed to get bill AB 1690 Passed
Support smoking waste pollution prevention! AB 1690 is facing significant opposition and to keep all the currently defined products (cigarette/cigar filters and tobacco and cannabis single-use vaping devices) in the bill, we need your help ASAP! Did you know? … Filtered cigarettes cause pollution in our communities, and they are unnecessary because they don’t protect smokers’ health. Since 1964, the U.S. Surgeon […]
Read morePicnic Table Made of Butts at Mussel Rock!
Terracycle created a table made of cigarette filters and they donated it to Mussel Rock!
Read more1,000,000 Cigarette Filters Recycled
We diverted 1 million cigarette filters from reaching the ocean or the landfill.
Read more91,421 Filters Collected for the Butt Blitz
Our 2019 Butt Blitz came to an end on the Coastal Cleanup Day weekend and we finally got all the numbers in… 91,421 cigarette butts collected all around the Peninsula. Beyond San Mateo County While we thought it was only going to be a San Mateo county initiative, YOU (=incredible Earth Heroes) took it beyond our county limits. Palo Alto, […]
Read moreHow Ocean Shore School is Saving the Fish
Here is an incredible story from Eleanor Jonas, Ocean Shore School, 8th Grade On May 25th, we Ocean Shore School seventh and eighth graders ventured out for the fifth year in a row to see how many cigarette butts we could find and keep from polluting the ocean. In a competition to save the fish, the eighth graders raced the seventh […]
Read more323,712 Cigarette Butts Sent to TerraCycle
323,712 Cigarette Butts Removed from the Landfill! Hey volunteers! This is a quick note to thank you for all of the cigarette butts you’ve collected during our beach cleanups and habitat restoration events and turned in. We just mailed another 3000+ to TerraCycle. Since Helen started collecting them in 2013/2014 we’ve recycled 323,712 filters to date keeping them from the […]
Read moreWinners! Cigarette Butts Bucket Contest
Thank you, Paint A Bucket Contest participants. The results are amazing. We had 30 wonderfully varied painted buckets on display for Earth Day, and they were surely the most popular attraction at EcoFest! Our judges had reviewed all buckets in each category, and had many spirited discussions to arrive at their final decisions. It was difficult, to say the least, to […]
Read more150,000 Cigarette Butts Sent to Terracycle
TerraCycle is an innovative environmental company, located near Boston, that recycles many different products normally destined for the waste stream into products that can be reused. Brigades of volunteers collect them and ship them to their company free of charge. Cigarette butts, ash, and silver paper inserts, collected by cigarette butt brigades are recycled, into guitar picks, jewelry, and ash trays. Since […]
Read moreAdventure Out Against Cigarette Butts
How they helped us: Adventure Out has been helping keep Linda Mar Beach clean and our cigarette butt campaign by contributing to the making of our stainless steel cigarette butt containers. Adventure Out is California’s premiere outdoor school specializing in surf camps, rock climbing classes, backpacking trips, mountain biking, and wilderness survival skills instruction. Their mission is to share decades […]
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