A lot of cigarette butts are threw in parks, sidewalks and public places where kids used to play there, according to World Health Organization. In general, cigarette butts are the most littered thing in the United States and Dorchester.

That’s why an anti-smoking campaign from Dorchester purposed to install special bins for cigarettes butts. And they established 69 new bins for butts, in their town.

This campaign started to work in 2008 after a group of county town inhabitants observed an increase in cigarette ends, especially after the smoking ban was launched.

So, Mr. Kerr and his team wrote letters signed by Dorchester’s mayor, the President of Dorchester’s Chamber of Commerce, and other important people from the Dorchester business community, to try and convince the government to help solve the problem of cigarette butt garbage. Mr. Kerr explained: “We spent hundreds of hours personally visiting 70 various organizations and businesses, and wrote to 27 head offices. From all of these, 47 different organizations within the Dorchester Business Improvement District area, a group of businesses paying into a system which then uses its funds to ameliorate the town disorder, bought 69 bins.” And even every pub eagerly agreed to have at least one bin installed, because every day more and more cigarettes butts were threw on pavements and streets.

The main goal of this anti-smoking campaign was to get £500 from the Dorset section of the Campaign for to Protect Rural England, £250 from Dorchester Town Council, and over £500 came from Dorchester Business Improvement District, for to help the new plan to go ahead.

The wall-mounted clean iron bins will be fixed to the outside of business sections, and West Dorset District Council’s rejected teams will empty the butt bins as part of their regular collections. Mr. Kerr said: “This was the syrup on the cake which empowered us to provide all businesses a package deal that made sense.”

Researchers found that because of the smoking ban up to 25 tonnes of extra cigarette trash are being dumped on Britain’s streets in every day. And 79 percent of public places in England are full with cigarettes garbage.