St. Paul’s School Oakland, CA!Our Strive for a Better Community…
This is the Glen Echo Creek Watershed…
• Watersheds are an area or region drained
by a river, river system, or body of
water
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How many?!What kind of place?!
Collecting!Data…!
!Date?!
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Where! exactly?
6,776 Cigarette Butts Were Found Last Year!
923 Were Found at McElroy
Fountain!
923!
DID YOU KNOW?4.5 trillion cigarette butts are littered every year?
That’s more than 600 each for every living human being!!
1 in every 5 trash items is a cigarette butt.
There are over 176 million pounds of discarded cigarette butts in the US.
Cigarette butts get washed and end up in nearby bodies of water…
into storm drains.
Ashtray pilot proposal:
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First Meeting with the City…
What we have done…
Collecting Data Research
What we have done…FliersAwareness PSA’s
What We Have Done…
Visit St. Paul’s Towers
City of Oakland Water Quality Committee
Chapel Presentations
What we did last year…
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Local businesses are considering installing
ash trays.
We presented at the Bay Area Trash Summit.
Where We Gathered…
To Here
From Here
Total collected = 4,273
About 1,000 per week
Two ashtrays at the fountain
Two ashtrays at the bus
stop
Map of Data
Possible Sites for Future Ashtrays…
1317170
243
39 152102
620
325
16
172048
Our Next Steps...
• Collect more data at the pilot sites.
• Work with the city and local businesses to add more ash trays.
• Continue to share our work at conferences.
Thank you for watching our presentation!
Slides and script produced and written by the presenters.
St. Paul’s School Oakland, CA!Our Strive for a Better Community…