This blog always suffers during the summer. Zoops.
Oh, but I do have something to share. I was reading the RedEye this morning and there was actually a good article inside! Woah!
So, some RedEye staffers went out onto the Chicago streets (between Madison and LaSalle) and found well-over a thousand cigarette butts within one city block. The article went on to address the fact that cigarette butts don't "biodegrade" into nothing...they actually break down into small remnants of plastic and debris that remain visible and potentially harmful for 10-15 years.
We all know most people do not use ashtrays...especially now since smokers are legally required to smoke outside. And very rarely are outside receptacles for cigarettes found for public use. Businesses: you need to buy them for your customers. Thanks.
I'm not a smoker because smoking is gross and unhealthy and yada yada. BUT I know a lot of people who do smoke and I encourage them to please, please use a designated outside ashtray/receptacle thing whenever disposing of your butts. Stop flicking them onto the streets, sidewalks, or down sewer drains. Those nasty butts are not biodegradable and your laziness to dispose of your cigarette butts is entirely the same as littering and polluting the Earth. I don't like that at all and I don't like you if you do it.
Stop littering, and stop smoking for that matter. It's sick.
XO.
