A penny for your butt. Cigarette butt, that is.
A "cigarette meter eater" will be installed Thursday at the San Rafael City Plaza, according to the Marin Independent Journal. The "meter" is a trash receptacle that will record how many cigarette butts are disposed. For each butt properly thrown in, the St. Vincent de Paul Society will receive a penny.
If there are 100,000 cigarettes thrown away, local businesses will contribute $1,000, according to the report.
The San Rafael Clean Coalition is behind the effort.
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