Title: Calgary Cigarette Butt Collection Study
Description: A Fact Gathering Study regarding the work of Collecting Cigarette Butts from Public areas such as sidewalks and parks. The four main facts are: 1. In the summer of 2023, the butt density on sidewalks was 0.29 butts/square meter/month, or, said another way, one butt in every three square meters, 2. it takes 1 hour and thirty minutes, approximately, to collect one litre of butts, 3. a person can collect about 368 butts per hour, and 4. on an average city block of 1850 square meters of sidewalk area, there are about 575 cigarette butts.
Subjects: Cigarette Butts, Solid Waste Collection, Economic aspects
Places: Calgary (Alta.)
Time periods: Solid Waste Collection, Cigarette Butts