NEW SMOKING BINS NEAR BRIGG PUBS TO TACKLE PAVEMENT LITTER

Brigg Town Council is now looking to provide bins outside three of our pubs in an effort to clamp down on discarded cigarette ends littering the pavement.
Intended sites are at the front of the Woolpack, in the Market Place; the Black Bull, on Wrawby Street; and the Dying Gladiator, on Bigby Street.
Coun Jane Kitching suggested during the council's June meeting that if these bins proved successful, they might consider adding others outside the Britannia (Wrawby Street) and the Yarborough Hunt (Bridge Street).
The Lord Nelson (Market Place) and Wetherspoon's White Horse (Wrawby Street) were not mentioned, while The Exchange Bar is some distance from Bigby Street and Wrawby Street so fag ends are never an issue.
The council is keen to see the streets kept free from 'fag ends' and providing bins should certainly help, in Brigg Blog's view.
Some pubs have metal bins attached to their frontages, but these soon get full to overflowing.
Ashtrays are provided in beer gardens but some smokers can't be bothered to walk a few extra yards to the rear, or side, of the premises when they want to have a drag.
If they find the on-the-wall cigarette bins are full at the front of the pub, they then discard the filters on the pavement or toss them down a nearby drain cover.
New in-pub signs requesting smokers to use the beer garden ashtrays provided are surely worth a try. The pubs could do their own at little cost.
Has anyone asked the licensees?

Fag ends discarded on the pavement near a Brigg pub