ASU Clean & Beautiful

Let's Keep Our Campus from Becoming an Ashtray

It is estimated that several trillion cigarette butts are littered worldwide every year. That is billions of cigarettes flicked, one at a time, on our sidewalks, our beaches, our nature trails, our gardens, and other public places every single day.

In fact, cigarettes are the most littered item in America and the world ­ and at ASU.

Cigarette filters are made of cellulose acetate tow, NOT COTTON, and they can take decades to degrade. Not only does cigarette litter ruin even the most picturesque setting, but the toxic residue in cigarette filters is damaging to the environment.

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Arizona State University’s 750-acre Tempe campus was designated as an Arboretum in 1990. It is a lush, pan-tropical oasis, filled with palms, fruit trees, conifers, desert trees, cacti, succulents and other plants.

In 1991, art critic Thomas Gaines selected ASU as one of the 50 most beautiful campuses in the United States, listing it in his book, The Campus as a Work of Art.

Questions? Send an e-mail to jps@asu.edu

Last Update - February 27, 2008
 

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