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About Butts
"An estimated 4.5 trillion cigarette butts are littered worlwide every year"
Cigarette Litter organisation 2001 |
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About Butts
"Australians smoke 24 billion cigarettes a year"
price waterhouse industry exchange |
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About Butts
"1 in 10 cigarette butts end up in the oceans and water ways"
Melbourne Water |
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About Butts Wind and rain carry cigarette butts into the waterways, where the toxic chemicals the cigarette filter was designed to trap, leak out into aquatic eco systems. |
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About Butts
Cigarettes contain approximately 600 toxins amongst these are Acetone, Ammonia, Arsenic, Benzene, Benzoapyrene, Butane, Cadmium, Formaldehyde, lead propylene Glycol and Terpentine.
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A SIMPLE SOLUTION TO A MAJOR PROBLEM: The Buttrap
STORMWATER QUALITY IMPROVEMENT DEVICE
| Standard storm water inlet:
This open inlet allows cigarette butts and other gross pollutants to easily enter our waterways via our underground piped storm water system. |
Standard storm water inlet with
"THE BUTTRAP":
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 The BUTTRAP is recommended as an effective way to control street litter from entering the waterways via the storm water system.
The BUTTRAP prevents cigarette butts and other gross pollutants from entering our fragile,life sustaining resource-our oceans and waterways.
Street litter is unsightly,environmentally damaging and can cause blockages to storm water management systems.
Despite education programs,awareness campaigns and street cleaning programs,large amounts of gross pollutants are still entering our storm water systems.
This has led to the design ,manufacture,and trial of the BUTTRAP.
The BUTTRAP is made of perforated stainless steel,made to suit your specifications.The BUTTRAP is simply installed and secured to the kerb with stainless steel masonry fastners.The BUTTRAP can be easily cleaned manually or by mechanical street sweeper.
The BUTTRAP was successfully trialled with the Byron Bay Shire Council NSW.
The BUTTRAP is effective in preventing various types and sizes of gross pollutants such as:
- cigarette butts
- organic matter
- plastics
- cans and bottles
from entering the storm water system.
One Trap - One Day
Results of Trial:
1 month - 1 trap (July 2002) - 9.12kgs
2 months - 1 trap (July - Sept 2002) - 23kgs
 Contact Information:
email: buttrap@hotmail.com
fax: (02) 66842729
phone: (02)66842728
mobile: 0432638411
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About Buttrap
"The device appears to have been efficient in collecting cigarette butts and other litter that normally would be flushed into the storm water system"
Byron Bay Shire Council |
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About Buttrap
"The device has not caused any problems during the trial period with respect to flooding ,tripping hazard or vandalism and has not interfered with Councils street sweeping machinery".
Byron Bay Shire Council |
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About Buttrap
"The Chamber of Commerce was unanimous in their support for the device and congratulates you on the development of this cost effective,clever method of preventing pollutants from entering our storm water system"
Byron Bay Chamber of Commerce |
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