When I first saw the links, I couldn’t image why people were hunting for butts, but get your mind out of the gutter! This has nothing to do with the body part that we each carry around of various shapes. This is about cigarette butts! It isn’t even about an anti-smoking campaign. The Portland Butt Hunt is about reducing the litter associated with cigarette butts.
What is the Portland Butt Hunt?
On Saturday April 19, the Leadership Portland class of 2008 invites you to join us in the first Portland Butt Hunt. We have partnered with SOLV to incorporate the Butt Hunt into their annual SOLV IT Earth Day initiative - one of the largest Earth Day projects in the nation. Our objective will be to clean up the butts around downtown Portland. Mark your calendars, sign up, and join us for the hunt!
We encourage smokers and non-smokers to join the butt hunt. This is not an anti-smoking initiative, it is an anti-litter initiative. It is important to have smokers on our team.
Some ButtHunt details: We will meet at Pioneer Square (by Starbucks) at 9am on 4/19. Gloves and garbage bags will be provided. Suggested routes will be coordinated and assigned.
Quoted from the Butt Hunt Portland site
I hate to see the sidewalks littered with butts. I was once a smoker (in college), but I was never a litterer. I was one of those who would put it out on the sidewalk, and stuff the butts in my pocket until I could find a trash can. This is a great cause, and I encourage people to get out and support it.
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Gah! Drives me batty when I see people on I-84 toss their sparking butts out the window; they have obviously never lived dry, high country where you could cause deaths and loss of homes by such irresponsible, idiotic, unthinking behaviour.
Thanks for this info, I might join em.
Maybe I’ll wear my Juicy sweats, the ones with the logo all over the butt - just to be incendiary and pun-ish.
Just wait until smoking is banned in restaurants and bars next year. Street sweepers are going to need to work overtime!
The people at my organization are working to create an anti-cigarette butt campaign in Portland. If you are interested in participating let me know. Alison@nwnw.org