Fresh Peer Educators Educating Peers at Southeastern (Fresh PEEPS) is hosting a Big (Cigarette) Butt Round Up this Wednesday, Sept. 28 in the Student Union from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Although the event is run by Fresh PEEPS, it is open for anyone interested. All volunteers will receive a free t-shirt as well as refreshments while they pick up cigarette butts throughout campus. The purpose of this event is to increase tobacco awareness and to improve the campus environment.
“A lot of people don’t realize that cigarette butts are not bio-degradable,” said Annette Baldwin, Fresh PEEPS Advisor. “They’re not made out of cotton and they actually take like 25 years to bio-degrade. When you throw your cigarette butt on the ground, it becomes an environmental time.”
The third big event, called “American Smoke-out Adventure Run” will be held on Nov. 9 with the theme “breathing shouldn’t be an campus.”
Fresh PEEPS hopes that through this event smokers will begin to dispose of their cigarette butts more responsibly, resulting in a cleaner campus.
“We’re not anti-smoker, we just really want clean air on campus,” said Baldwin. “The ultimate goal is to have a 100 percent tobacco free campus. There are 500 campuses nationwide that are 100 percent tobacco