Cigarette Litter Prevention
Keep Savannah Beautiful has been awarded a grant to raise awareness and take action against cigarette butt litter in Savannah.
Keep America Beautiful Presents 2020 Cigarette Litter Prevention Program Grant To Keep Savannah Beautiful
Savannah, GA (June 15, 2020) – Keep America Beautiful®, the nation’s largest community improvement nonprofit organization, today announced it has awarded a $10,000 2020 Cigarette Litter Prevention Program (CLPP) grant to Keep Savannah Beautiful to address cigarette litter in the city of Savannah.
Image via TerraCycle
TerraCycle’s Cigarette Butt Recycling Program
Every year, billions of cigarette butts end up in dumpsters and landfills, or get tossed as litter on shorelines, parks, and sidewalks across the US. With funding from Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company, the waste collected through this program is recycled into a variety of industrial products, such as plastic pallets, and any remaining tobacco is recycled as compost.
City of Savannah Ordinances:
Sec. 4-2023B. - Definitions.
For (j) Litter: "Litter" means all forms of discarded materials including but not limited to sand, gravel, slag, brickbats, rubbish, waste material, tin cans, refuse, garbage, trash, debris, dead animals, animal waste, bottles, glass, cans, boxes, containers, unclaimed papers or paper products, all tobacco products, tires, appliances, furniture, tree and landscape materials, grass trimmings, leaves, mechanical equipment or parts, building or construction materials, tools, machinery, wood, motor vehicles and motor vehicle parts, vessels, aircraft equipment, waste oil, batteries, antifreeze, sludge, or any other discarded material or substance of every kind and description.
City of Savannah Anti-Smoking Ordinance passed in 2010
What is the Savannah Smokefree Air Ordinance of 2010?
In August 2010, the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah voted overwhelmingly to pass an ordinance to eliminate smoking in all workplaces. Effective at noon on January 1, 2011, the new law expands the Georgia Smokefree Air Act to prohibit smoking in all public places and workplaces in the City of Savannah.
Get Involved
If you're apart of a neighborhood or other community organization that would like to get a cigarette butt receptacle for your neighborhood and maintain it, please reach out to us and partner with us on this program!