Nina, Hanna, Molly, Kristy, Cory, Paul and Desert (not in photo) conducted a tobacco-litter cleanup on the Arcata Plaza to raise awareness about smoke-free laws in the city and the impact of cigarette pollution on our streets and in Humboldt Bay. More than 1,000 cigarette butts were cleaned from the streets and sidewalks. The number of butts collected this year was 44 percent less than the number of littered butts since last year, and only about one-quarter of the butts collected in 2012, the year before Arcata adopted their smoke-free downtown policy. The project was organized by students with the Eureka High School and Arcata High School chapters of Friday Night Live, a student-run service club.
