The Butt Stops Here is an ongoing cigarette butt watershed pollution reduction and education program that was initiated in 2010 by The Valley Women’s Club of San Lorenzo Valley’s Environmental Committee for the SLV. The program is intended to improve the health of the watershed by reducing the amount of cigarette butt litter entering it from streets that feed to storm drains that discharge to streams, creeks and the river, and ultimately to the ocean. Read more>>
Butt Seriously
When dropped on the pavement:
Butts are POISONOUS, a FIRE HAZARD, and are REALLY UGLY
Butts WASH DOWN into our creeks, rivers, and oceans
Butts POLLUTE THE WATER
Butts HARM deer, fish, frogs & other CRITTERS
Butts last YEARS in the Environment
Locations
Butt Receptacles are installed at these locations:
BOULDER CREEK Boulder Creek Brewery & Cafe Junction Park Smoke Shop Joe’s Bar Jenna Su’s Café
BROOKDALE Brookdale Post Office
BEN LOMOND Henfling’s Tavern
FELTON Don Quixote’s International Music Hall SLV Redemption/Recycling Center Felton Laundromat Downtown sidewalk
We need your help to make California beaches cleaner by going smoke-free. Send an email here asking Governor Brown to sign SB 386, which will prohibit smoking and disposing of cigarette waste at our state beaches and parks. Read more, sign and share!
Contributions in support of the campaign can be sent with your name, address, phone, and email address, to The Butt Stops Here c/o The Valley Women’s Club, PO Box 574 Ben Lomond, CA 95005. Contributions to The Valley Women’s Club are tax deductible. The Valley Women’s Club is a 501-c-3 nonprofit organization, Federal ID # 94-2900221.
Tai Stills, member of the VWC’s Environmental Committee, has a talent for designing and producing eye and mind-catching brochures on environmental issues. She designed the cartoon brochure and enlisted the talented artist Jon Hastings to do the drawings as a part of the Butt Stops Here Campaign, with Jon’s services paid for by the SLV
Colorful Critters Remind Us That What’s on the Ground Flows into the River Two large grates near Junction Park in Boulder Creek are the first two of many that will be painted over storm drains to remind everyone that what is on the ground gets washed into the drains and then flows into the River
San Lorenzo Valley streets and waterways will be cleaner and safer thanks to twelve cigarette butt disposal containers installed over the past 18 months by the Valley Women’s Club’s Environmental Committee for the SLV. Purchased with the assistance of a Watershed Education Grant from the San Lorenzo Valley Water District, and with contributions from John
