Cig-throw contest
The smokers, you cannot get them over the blue lines with all effort. And from now on, they have to drop their cigarettes in a special ‘cig-ashtray' in the ground. At the square of the faculty of Economy and Management in Arnhem, three pavement-ashtrays can be found, in which students can throw their sticks of nicotine.
Keep it clean
This way, the General and Technical Support Services hope to keep the square clean. Ine Blauwhof, head of the Support Services, says to be expecting a lot from the ‘Clean Cube 600’, as the popular pavement-ashtray is called. ‘We think that students who smoke like to aim and throw their cigarettes in the ashtray. With the result that there will be less or no cigarettes at all at the square. If this experiment succeeds, more ashtrays will follow.’
'Hope it works'
Next to Lokaal ’99, the campus café, a group of smokers watches how the ashtray stones are put in the ground. ‘Great idea, but I don’t think it works effectively,’ Joeri says. ‘Smokers hang out under the roof of the Faculty, ór in front of Lokaal ’99. Besides that, the ashtray stones do not really catch the eye because they are in the ground. But I do hope it works. Maybe they can put the ashtrays in the pavement of Lokaal ’99 as well.’
Sceptical
Tim is a little more sceptical. ‘I just heard that when a truck drives over the stones, they all get broken. We often have deliveries here, and I don’t think drivers mind an ashtray stone in the ground. Also money transport lorries which fill the cash dispenser will drive over the ashtrays. I wonder how long the ashtrays will remain undamaged.’
