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=Our Solution:=

Did you know that there is an ash tray located at almost every doorway around the Sheridan campus? Many of the students and even the faculty at Sheridan College are unaware of this. The build up of cigarette litter around the campus is becoming a growing concern especially with the custodial staff. Hundreds of cigarettes are littered each day polluting our school environment and making it look unhealthy. Many people have complained to the school of this growing issue yet it appears to be uncontrollable. The lack of awareness of ashtrays around the school is one of the major reasons of the build up of cigarette litter. Did you know that it takes over 5-6 years for cigarette filters to start decomposing and that it ultimately cannot fully decompose? This creates a growing concern of the long term build up of cigarette litter around the school and that if the custodial staff refuse to clean it, things can start getting ugly.



Our campaign to making our school and society a greener place "one butt at a time" proposes a more adequate solution to this issue. We proposed a design of environmentally friendly ash urn which we propose to distribute around the school that is both eye catching and effective. The design of the ash urns will be bright green so that it catches the attention of smokers, to subconsciously influence them to properly dispose of their cigarettes. It will act as a environmentally friendly reminder to smokers of the negative impacts of cigarette litter to our school and our community.