Calgary Cigarette Butt Collection Study
Subtitle: What is the Butt Density on Sidewalks and Street Gutters and How Long does it take to Collect a Litre of Butts?
Edition: first edition
Publisher: Screaming Girls Publishing Co.
Published: 2024
Place of publication: Calgary
Format: ePUB; PDF; DOCX
ISBN-13: 9780968136843
Copyright date: 2024
First sentence: Based on the data, a person would have to spend about two and a half hours a month to collect the butts of just a single one-pack-a-day smoker, and there are calculated to be about 150,000 smokers in Calgary.
Description: A practical study to determine facts about the work of collecting cigarette butts from public areas - especially sidewalks. The main goal is to calculate a fair financial incentive for this type of work. The purpose of this study is to provide practical data to convince the Provincial government of Alberta to institute a deposit program on cigarettes like they now have on pop cans. Such a deposit program will provide an incentive for people to clean the butts from public areas and provide another source of income for street persons.
Notes: Public Domain: free. Available at: https://archive.org/details/9780968136843-frontcover/978-0-9681368-4-3/  or https://books.google.ca/books?id=b8j0EAAAQBAJ
Table of contents: title: Synopsis.	1; title: Introduction.	2; title: Study Design.	3; title: Goals:	3; title: Locations:	4; title: Method:	4; title: Equipment:	4; title: Results Summary	6; title: Table 1: Synoptic Table of Facts about Collecting Cigarette Butts from, The City of Calgary, (Downtown) Sidewalks and their Associated Gutters, over the Four Consecutive Months of: July, August, September, and October, 2023.	6; title: Table 2: Synoptic Table of Ratios Derived from the Facts:	7; title: Results in Detail:	8; title: Table 3: Number of Cigarette Butts Collected, Litres Collected, and Collection Time, By Month and By Location.	8; title: Table 3a: Collection Speed by Month in Litres per Hour.	9; title: Table 3b: Total: Butts, Litres and Collection Time over Four Month Study.	9; title: Table 4: Number of Cigarette Butts Collected and Litres Collected, and Butts per Litre By Month.	10; title: Table 4a: Calculation of Average Butts per Litre by Month.	11; title: Table 4b: Summary of Butts per Litre.	11; title: Table 5: Number of Cigarette Butts per Square Meter of: Sidewalk and Gutters (excluding Grassy Areas) By Month and By Location.	12; title: Table 5a: Number of Cigarette Butts per Square Meter of: Grassy Areas (excluding Sidewalk and Gutters), By Month and By Location.	13; title: Table 5b: Calculation of Average Butt Density per Month by Location Type.	13; title: Table 5c: Calculation of Average Butt Density per Month for All Location Types Combined.	14; title: Discussion of Results.	15; title: The Extent of the Problem of Cigarette Butts in Calgary.	15; title: A Thank you to Smokers.	15; title: Putting a Price on Litter via a Refundable-Deposit: A Time-Tested and Successful Solution.	15; title: Seasonal Variation in the Density of Butts.	16; title: Butts per Litre.	17; title: Economic Considerations Regarding the Collection of Cigarette Butts.	18; title: This Researcher's Vision on How Alberta should Budget for a Refundable-Deposit on Cigarette Butts.	18; title: Appendix A: Butts Collected by Location and by Individual Sidewalks on each Side of the City Block.	20; title: Appendix B: Butt Collected and Average Butt Collected by Location Type.	22; title: Bibliography	23; title: Endnotes	25