Time to butt out
National Butt Free Day is on Tuesday, October 28.
Cigarette butts continue to be Australia’s most littered item, consistently recorded by Keep Australia Beautiful litter research as being about 43 per cent of the total number of items littered nationally every year.
About 20 million butts are littered every day.
National Butt Free Day aims to highlight the environmental threat posed by around 20 million butts that are littered every day around Australia.
■ Register: info@buttfree.org.au or call Butt Free Australia on (08) 8234 7255.
