Mayor Martin J. Walsh is spending nearly $3,000 on seven cigarette-butt receptacles that will be placed in high foot traffic areas around the city to rid the streets of litter.The Neat Streets program strategically places the boxes — made in Cambridge at a cost of $421 a piece — in busy locations with fun poll questions taped to them to let smokers vote with their cigarette butts.
Mayor Walsh Challenges Boston’s Smokers To Be Neat And Vote With Their Butts
By O’Ryan Johnson, Boston Herald
Wed, 02/10/2016 - 10:00pm
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