MARQUETTE, MI-- The Marquette Downtown Development Authority has been awarded a 2018 Keep America Beautiful grant.
The city’s Cigarette Litter Prevention Program will receive $2,500 dollars to help purchase cigarette urns. They’ll be placed in strategic locations downtown. The money will also be used to educate smokers about the negative effects of cigarette butt litter and distribute portable ash trays.
Carl Lindquist is Executive Director of the Superior Watershed Partnership. He says people often don’t make the connection that when they throw a cigarette butt onto the street it goes down a storm drain and ends up on local beaches.
