Almost 7,000 cigarette butts were found in Gainesville’s downtown area during a one-day scan in May 2013. Fifteen months and 27 cigarette receptacles later, the number has fallen to fewer than ...

Boston initiative aims to keep cigarette butts off the ground By Steve Annear Globe Staff,February 10, 2016, 2:23 p.m.

The Easton Ambassadors have collected more than half a million cigarette butts from recycling receptacles placed around the city starting in 2015.

The Arden Heights resident’s product stores cigarette butts in a wall-mounted receptacle outside of more than 300 businesses, currently in Chicago, Manhattan, Queens and the Ironbound Business ...

The seven receptacles cost a total of around $2,000. "I'll use them, yes," Marcel Goulet said Friday. "If I'm almost done my cigarette, [I'll] just throw it in there and just keep on going.