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No Butts About It: ButtFest Promotes Cigarette Recycling Among Artists, Fans, and Venues

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If you’ve trekked around the Atlanta scene much at all, you’ve encountered cigarette smokers. And if you’ve encountered smokers, you’ve probably also seen floors and sidewalks littered with the charred butts they’ve left behind. Andrew Joyce, singer and guitarist of local surf rock gang Antarcticats, certainly did. “I feel like every venue or house I go to has tons of cig litter around,” he tells me over email. “It’s always bummed me out, since pollutants and toxins in the filters can leach out into the groundwater.” As an environmental engineering student at Georgia Tech, Joyce was keen to find a solution, and after some research and adjusted planning, he’s devised a benefit gig and recycling initiative called ButtFest to shed light on both the problem and a potential solution.