This document summarizes the efforts of St. Paul's School in Oakland to reduce cigarette litter in their community. It discusses how the school has been collecting data on cigarette butt litter at local sites, presenting their findings to local organizations and businesses. Their goal is to work with the city and local businesses to install more ash trays and reduce cigarette butt pollution in streets and waterways. They provide statistics on the large volume of cigarette litter produced each year and its environmental impacts. The school will continue collecting data from pilot sites with new ash trays, advocate for more ash trays, and share their work at conferences to further their efforts.

1. St. Paul’s School Oakland, CA!
Our Strive for a Better Community…

2. This is the Glen Echo Creek
Watershed…
• Watersheds are an
area or region drained
by a river, river
system, or body of
water

3. !
How many?!What kind of place?!
Collecting!
Data…!
!
Date?!
!
Where!
exactly?

4. Map of data…

5. 6,776 Cigarette Butts Were
Found Last Year!
923 Were
Found at
McElroy
Fountain!
923!

6. 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.

7. Cigarette butts get washed and end up in
nearby bodies of water…
into storm drains.

8. CITY HALL VISIT:

9. Ashtray pilot
proposal:
!
First Meeting with the City…

10. What we have done…
Collecting Data Research

11. What we have done…
FliersAwareness PSA’s

12. What We Have Done…
Visit St. Paul’s Towers
City of Oakland
Water Quality Committee
Chapel
Presentations

13. What we did last year…
• ff
Local businesses are
considering installing
ash trays.
We presented at the Bay
Area Trash Summit.

14. Where We Gathered…
To Here
From Here
Total collected = 4,273
About 1,000 per week

15. Two ashtrays
at the fountain
Two ashtrays
at the bus
stop

16. Map of Data
Possible Sites for Future Ashtrays…
131
71
70
243
39 152
102
6
20
3
25
16
17
20
48

17. 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.

18. Thank you for watching our
presentation!
Slides and script produced and written
by the presenters.

19. St. Paul’s School Oakland, CA!
Our Strive for a Better Community…