Walk on Main Avenue. Outside of each business on the city’s sidewalks – and just off the curbs in the streets – see scores of cigarette butts. Lots and lots of butts, tossed – where eventually they’ll go down the drains. Into the Animas River.
I’m asking these and all the other local businesses who share this smoking clientele to please take better care, and to help their tobacco-addicted customers dispose of their cigarette butts more responsibly.
Surely it’s obvious, if you pause to think, that these nearly indestructible butt ends go into our river.
Especially if you operate a bar business, you know that many of your customers smoke, you know they step just outside your doors to do it. If you don’t provide your customers with a receptacle, you also know what they do with those cigarette butts.
C’mon, please make it so: Get the butts out, in an appropriate receptacle – not into the sidewalk or street.
Susan UleryDurango
