Meet the FumoThis fun and funky, $20,000 creation is the Ioglo Fumo.
It lights up with colourful LEDs, plays one of fifty tunes and hilarious sound effects to entertain and reward smokers after they use this can't-miss ash receptacle as a depository for their used cigarettes. Would tobacco companies help them out and finance a few of these in high-profile locations to capture the nasty plastic cigarette filters before they hit the ground? These iron towers of light and sound raise awareness of the tobacco-related litter problem to new heights, so to speak. The inventors at Ioglo, a collaborative Dutch/Turkish agency design duo, would very much like to hear from Big Tobacco and other large concerns. Imagine these contraptions at festivals and high-traffic locations. They would be magnets for smokers, would make it easy to capture butts for recycling - nice and dry, the way we like them! Once crushed or disgustingly soggy, they become too gross for most people to handle. View the Fumo press package here. |
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Please, dearest smokers, no more butt, butt, butts
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A big-butted stunt in your face |
Keep Britain Tidy and the City of London launched a new campaign against tobacco litter in September 2014.
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Used tobacco products should be discarded in proper receptacles and containers.
Manufacturers never made this clear for some reason, but like every product, tobacco products carry instructions for use. The most important instruction concerns disposal of used tobacco products and packaging.
Smokers have no trouble understanding the first three steps to using their cigarettes, cigars and what have you. 'Light, inhale, exhale' are instructions they learn to adopt very quickly. But the most important instruction, regarding extinguishing and discarding of remnant tobacco products, is decidedly harder to teach.
Indoors no smoker would think twice about using an ashtray. Smokers don't grind their butts into your floor or flick them lit into the corner. When they're inside, smokers know the rule about discarding butts and packaging in their proper containers. Out of doors and in public spaces you'd never know those same rules apply. Smokers become ridiculously careless, not to mention thoughtless.
Tobacco waste is hazardous and noxious. These products should be handled with care by users. I wish those who are reliant on smoking would acknowledge that there's more responsibility involved in being a smoker than ensuring that you don't run out of smokes! Smokers are responsible for seeing that their butts end up in the proper container or ashtray. It's time for manufacturers and governments to spell that out to them more clearly.
Smokers have no trouble understanding the first three steps to using their cigarettes, cigars and what have you. 'Light, inhale, exhale' are instructions they learn to adopt very quickly. But the most important instruction, regarding extinguishing and discarding of remnant tobacco products, is decidedly harder to teach.
Indoors no smoker would think twice about using an ashtray. Smokers don't grind their butts into your floor or flick them lit into the corner. When they're inside, smokers know the rule about discarding butts and packaging in their proper containers. Out of doors and in public spaces you'd never know those same rules apply. Smokers become ridiculously careless, not to mention thoughtless.
Tobacco waste is hazardous and noxious. These products should be handled with care by users. I wish those who are reliant on smoking would acknowledge that there's more responsibility involved in being a smoker than ensuring that you don't run out of smokes! Smokers are responsible for seeing that their butts end up in the proper container or ashtray. It's time for manufacturers and governments to spell that out to them more clearly.
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"Keep Your Butts Up Off The Ground"
A cool jingle out of West Virginia, USA, part of one county's campaign. |
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