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Keep Your Facility Safe and Neat with Cigarette Butt Receptacles

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Discarded cigarette butts. They’re an ugly nuisance that pose a fire hazard for your workplace and are environmentally unfriendly, too. Even if your employees, and possibly your customers, are smoking outside, their improperly discarded butts still present those problems. That’s why it is important to provide the proper receptacles for extinguishing and discarding cigar and cigarette butts at your place of business.

Having cigarette receptacles on your workplace premises decreases litter and improves the overall safety of your facility — for example, by reducing the risk of fires in trash cans or chemical fires caused by still-lit cigarettes or sparks. AbsorbentsOnline offers cigarette receptacles that provide a safe, clean way to dispose of butts. The receptacles have long necks that restrict oxygen, to reduce smoke and burn time, and sand at the bottom of the unit that prevents the butts from being blown by the wind. The receptacle’s top is covered so that moisture cannot get in — inhibiting unpleasant wet tobacco odors.

Choose from a variety of receptacles
Both metal and polyethylene cigarette receptacles are available. The metal outdoor cigarette receptacles are made of galvanized steel in yellow and beige and are durable enough to provide many years of service. The polyethylene cigarette butt receptacles come in an array of colors and designs to match your building’s aesthetics. Anchor tabs on the receptacle’s base provide secure mounting and wind protection.

If you’re worried about an outdoor cigarette ashtray negatively affecting your building’s appearance, AbsorbentsOnline has a solution for that as well. Decorative outdoor ashtrays are available in three colors and three styles to blend seamlessly with your building’s design. Choose from a classic fluted model, a hitching post design, or even a golf ball style!

You can accommodating smokers without the hassle. Provide safe and clean disposal of cigarette butts by adding one or more cigarette receptacles to your work area.

AbsorbentsOnline is here to help. Feel free to contact us by email or call toll free at (800) 869-9633.

Keep Your Workplace Clean With a Cigarette Receptacle

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Cigarette butts.

According to the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), approximately 18.1% of U.S. population smokes cigarettes. While numbers have steadily declined over the past 60 years (43% of Americans smoked in the 1940s), there’s still a large chunk of the population who smokes. Business owners should acknowledge this fact and provide their employees with a safe place to put out their cigarettes.

AbsorbentsOnline.com has the perfect solution for cigarette butts: outdoor cigarette receptacles. These receptacles offer workers a quick and convenient way to put out their cigarettes after they are finished smoking. It’s not uncommon for workers to simply toss their cigarette butts on the ground, assuming someone else will come along to clean it up. It’s this type of attitude, however, that leads to dirty workplace.

Outdoor cigarette receptacles feature a long, narrow neck that restricts oxygen to the contents inside. Once the cigarette butt is placed into the top, it falls down inside where the lack of oxygen forces the cherry out; thus, quickly stopping the smoke. Not only does this minimize secondhand smoke around the workplace, but it also reduces the chance of a fire.

Each time someone tosses a cigarette butt on the ground or out the car window, there’s a chance it could start a fire. This risk is increased around workplaces which store or handle flammable chemicals. Workers here must use extra caution to ensure their cigarette butts are safely put out to protect the well-being of all employees.

Not-So-Fun Facts About Tobacco Cigarette Litter

  • 1.69 billion pounds of cigarette butts end up as waste each year.
  • Cigarette butts are oftentimes found in beaches, streams, river, oceans, national parks, and city highways.
  • They are the number one most commonly found item at the beach.
  • Contain traces of chemicals such as benzoapyrene, aresenic, acetone, lead, formaldehyde, toulene, butane, cadmium, ammonia and benzene.
  • Wind, rain and mother nature scatter littered cigarette butts into water systems.

I know what you’re probably thinking: why can’t I use a basic ashtray? Well, there’s certainly nothing stopping you from using ashtrays around your workplace, but outdoor cigarette receptacles are designed with a focus on aesthetics. For instance, the decorative receptacles look like a stylish stone or marble column and are available in black, beige and gray. From afar, they look like part of a building, but upon closer inspection you’ll see they are fully functional cigarette butt receptacles.