Vancouver City Councillor Adriane Carr wants something done about all the cigarette butts on the streets.
The city’s lone Green Party Councillor plans to table a motion next week to have staff look how to reduce the number of cigarette butts, including the possibility of public ashtrays.
Carr says local cleanup crews have identified the cigarette butt as the most common piece of litter. She adds Vancouver has one of the lowest smoking rates in the country.
But according to the latest numbers, 12 per cent of residents still light up; that’s more than 113-thousand people.
And when the Province banned smoking in public places, and the City banned it at beaches and parks, Carr says public ashtrays were not added to the areas where people were still able to smoke.
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