The Copenhagen Municipality is seeing results with their campaign against cigarette butts being thrown in the streets.

By Johanne Jedig Wejse

In Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark, cigarette butts were in 2018 86% of all the collected trash, and this is why the Copenhagen Municipality is focusing on new ashtrays and handing out the so called ‘pocket ashtrays’. And it seems to work: According to the communications consultant in the Environmental department of the Copenhagen Municipality, Camilla Junggreen, 7,4% of the citizens of Copenhagen owned a pocket ashtray. In late 2018, the number was up to 36%. And Camilla Junggreen is very pleased with the results: 

– I’m very happy with the preliminary results of the campaign, and hope to share our knowledge to continue to eliminate cigarette butts on the streets all around the world, says Camilla Junggreen.