The City of Sydney has erected a new installation in Sydney's Hyde Park that aims to make people think twice before butting their cigarettes on the ground.
The three by five meter structure is made from perspex and filled with a small portion of the cigarette butts thrown on the city streets.
“Every day our cleansing crews sweep up around 15,000 butts from the streets and footpaths,” Lord Mayor Clover Moore said.
“Many thousands more are washed into our harbor and waterways where they do serious environmental damage. Discarded butts leach toxic elements such as cadmium, lead and arsenic into water and soil as they decompose.”
