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EDITORIAL: Time to end an unsightly practice  

Jump to full article: Bendigo Advertiser (au), 2008-08-27

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THE City of Greater Bendigo has chipped in and funded several new cigarette butt disposal bins for locations throughout the CBD to try and help reduce litter.

The city, together with organisations including Department of Human Services, Bendigo Bank, Centrelink, Bendigo Health and the new Australian Technical College, sees the new bins as part of a "proactive campaign to combat cigarette butt litter". . . .

Cigarette butts are said to be the most common form of pollution entering our waterways. Surely by now we all know that these same waterways are far too precious to be treated as an environmental dump.

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