Wednesday, July 10, 2019

Butt Out!

There are styrofoam bans, plastic bag bans, plastic straw bans, plastic utensil bans...  I understand that.  I get that.

Why isn't there more talk about cigarette butts?  They're everywhere.  They never degrade.  And, it seems like people are more prone to flicking a cigarette butt out a car window than a spork.

Smoking bans in Pennsylvania seem to have stalled.  There are bills in the legislature to get rid of all the exemptions in the weak and current law.  I don't expect them to advance.

In spite of the bans that exist, we still seem to be buried in cigarette butts.