Keep your Facility Clean with a Smokers’ Outpost™ from
the New Pig Product Line

It is estimated that several trillion cigarette butts are littered worldwide every year. That's billions of cigarettes flicked, one at a time, on our sidewalks, beaches, nature trails, gardens, and other public places—including your place of business—every day. In fact, cigarettes are the most littered item in America and the world. New Pig can’t supply a Smokers' Outpost™ to every corner of the earth (although we’d certainly like to try!) but we can start with one corner: yours.

There is much misinformation regarding cigarette butt litter. The biggest myth is that cigarette filters are biodegradable. The fact is, cigarette butts are not biodegradable; the acetate (plastic) filters can take many years to decompose. Smokers may not realize the lasting, negative impact their actions have on the environment or your property. Placing ash cans or cigarette receptacles such as the Smokers' Outpost™ in your designated smoking areas can reduce this unwanted effect.

Providing a Smokers' Outpost™ is easier than trying to enforce a no-smoking policy

If you tried to ban smoking at your place of business rather than install smoking receptacles, how successful would you be? Who would be responsible for enforcement? Either you or your human resources manager would attempt to implement such a rule. The fact is, enforcing new no-smoking regulations in the workplace is seldom the answer. Research shows that a ban on smoking in the workplace does not significantly impact smoking – people simply find somewhere else to smoke. And although smoking in the workplace will be banned under the new regulations, you will still have to manage outside smoking. The front entrance (35%), the car park (23%) and the toilets (12%) are the most popular alternate smoking areas.

A Smokers' Outpost™ or Smokers' Outpost™ Combo for each smoking area will keep your non-smokers happy because they won’t encounter unsightly cigarette butts every day! Call 1-800-HOT-HOGS® (468-4647) for more information or click here to view our full line of ash can receptacles.

Environmental impacts of discarded butts

• Discarded cigarettes may set fire to rubbish bins, garden mulch and bush areas. Placing a Smokers' Outpost™ outside your lobby and break room, or anywhere employees gather to smoke, reduces the risk. Due to its innovative design, the Smokers' Outpost™ is quick to extinguish lit cigarette butts, virtually eliminating the chance of an accidental fire.
  
  
• The filters in cigarette butts are made from cellulose acetate, a non-biodegradable plastic that can take up to 15 years to break down in the environment. A Smokers' Outpost™ obviously can’t help, but it can ensure proper disposal of butts and lessen the impact on our environment.
  
  
• Cigarette butts threaten wildlife and aquatic animals that can mistake them for food. Butts have been found in the stomachs of young birds, sea turtles and other marine creatures. If filters block their digestive tracts, animals will become ill or even starve. Animals will also ingest hazardous compounds such as cadmium, arsenic and lead that have been absorbed by the filters. Even if a smoker doesn’t live near a body of water, butts tossed in the street will find their way to a storm sewer and to open waters and filtration plants. If the simple installation of a Smokers' Outpost™ and other types of cigarette receptacles helps prevent this, isn’t it worth it?
  
  
• Each butt contains the remnants of tobacco and paper plus the filter. The residue in the butts contains very toxic and soluble chemicals such as nicotine. These chemicals add to the existing 'cocktail' of environmental pollution coming from storm water into open bodies of water.
  
  
• Young children have also been known to try to eat butts. Is there any better reason to install Smokers' Outpost™ Combo trash and cigarette receptacles?

Nationwide, smokers consumed a staggering 425 billion cigarettes in 2001, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. That amounts to about 160 million pounds of cigarette butts, according to Longwood College faculty member, Kathleen Register, founder of Clean Virginia Waterways, and author of one of the few scientific studies on the effects of cigarette litter on the environment.

"Personally, I believe that educating smokers, just like we've educated people who drink sodas, is going to make the biggest inroads on this issue," Register said.

Cigarette maker Philip Morris, a founding member of Keep America Beautiful, says part of the problem is the lack of ashtrays outdoors in public places. It has mailed pamphlets promoting the use of personal ashtrays, small pocket-sized receptacles, to some of its customers. We at New Pig feel that this approach, combined with the placement of more ash can receptacles such as Smokers' Outpost™ will go a long way in helping to keep butts off the street.

Call New Pig at 1-800-HOT-HOGS® (468-4647) for more information on our Smokers’ Outpost ™ Cigarette Receptacles or click here to view our full line of ash cans and smoking receptacles. Be sure to ask about Smoker’s Sidekick™, the personal and portable smoking receptacles your workers can take with them!

Smokers' Outpost™ Combo

Matching Trash Can and Smokers’ Outpost™ set keep entrance or smoking areas clean and litter-free.

• Combo includes one Smokers' Outpost™ and one Littermate — both are made of durable HDPE which won't rust, chip or dent
  
  
• Smokers' Outpost™ has a unique oxygen-restricting design — extinguishes cigarettes quickly and safely
  
  
• Galvanized pail liner — easy to empty and clean
  
  
• Littermate has snap-fit covered raised lid — conceals trash bag liner, keeps rain and snow out and discourages folks from placing trash on top of the can
  
  
• Smokers' Outpost™ has tie-down holes for anchoring, deters vandals

Other Smokers’ Output ™ products include:

Site Saver™ Cigarette Butt Receptacle

Butt collection that can fit in tight spaces! This compact unit has only a 10" diameter footprint -- so it takes up less space. Unique enclosed design keeps litter in and water out. Waste collection and cleaning is easy with the sturdy removable steel pail liner.

Vintage Smokers' Outpost®

Give your smoking areas the upscale treatment with the Vintage Smokers’ Outpost!
Maintains a clean smoking area and provides safe disposal of cigarette butts. Designed to restrict the amount of oxygen inside to quickly extinguish a burning cigarette — virtually eliminating the possibility of a fire!
Constructed of cast aluminum — weather-resistant and durable, won't rust, chip or peel. Features a galvanized steel inner pan that slides out for easy cleaning and won’t leave hard-to-remove rust rings on sidewalks.

Smoke Stand

The sleek Smoke Stand is the cigarette receptacle that collects cigarette waste in a stylish way! Its cylindrical design brings a modern flair to entrances and smoking areas. Featuring a powder coated finish that’s easy to clean and internal snuffer helps to keep the outside of the unit ash-free! This unique design is stabilized by a weighted base, so there’s no worry for tipping accidents. Available in black or silver.

A Smokers' Outpost™ or Smokers' Outpost™ Combo from New Pig for each smoking area — no matter what type of business you have — will keep your non-smokers and smokers happy because they won’t have to look at and step on unsightly cigarette butts every day. Call 1-800-HOT-HOGS® for more information or click here to view the complete line of cigarette receptacle products from New Pig.