Beach smoking bans, while difficult to enforce, are a necessary first step to ensuring dangerous butt litter is kept out of the marine environment. An estimated 4.5 trillion butts are littered globally each year - each of which is a toxic bullet polluting up tot 50L of water with 3,900 dangerous chemicals, which marine life mistake for food. Responsible Runners groups, including RR Gold Coast, have picked up hundreds of thousands across Australia and the problem is only getting worse. As public smoking shifts back to a healthy paradigm from what it has been for the last 70+ years, councils are faced with the uncomfortable task of innovating ways to enforce smoking bans. Why so many councils are reluctant to do it is a mystery considering the detrimental health and environment effects and potential revenue from fines, creating an opportunity for councils to pioneer a new paradigm. Who will lead the way? Environment groups and the community are eager to support councils that do. Join RR Gold Coast every week: Wednesdays 5:30pm at The Spit; Thursdays 5:30pm at Burleigh Beach: https://facebook/groups/540221559405886 m.goldcoastbulletin.au/news/gold-coast/state-smoking-bans-are-failing-as-thousands-of-butts-recovered-from-beach/story-fnj94idh-1227162447015
Posted on: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 22:46:46 +0000
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