[Madhatter]

This is interesting; it's quite local to my home town actually. Recently in Atherstone, we had a campaign by the local borough council on people who drop litter. One of the things picked on and filmed using the towns expensive to run cctv system to get evidence of was, people dropping cigarette ends on the floor and putting them out prior to going in the supermarket. They filmed it, and then a council officer, who was standing staring at people in the street, pounced, following the criminals in to sommerfield and giving them a good telling off and a fine. I know people who were on the receiving end of this officer and they had children with them that got upset by mummy being in trouble. I had issues with it at the time, because there was actually no where to stub cigarettes out and the only thing to do, was to throw them on the floor and then pick them up and throw them in the bin, or stub them out on top of the plastic bin or on shop walls, making a mess, and then throwing them in the bin, Possibly still alight, and being a plastic full of paper, a fire risk.
The council have now replaced the bins with metal bins, which have a stubber on top. Never under estimate the power of a person on a forum!.
NOW though, this creates a problem. they've fitted the stubber on a bin, which is obviously meant for stubbing cigarettes out prior to putting them in the bin, BUT where did the cigarette come from, did you just buy it from a shop OR did you bring them from home. Oh dear, bit of a contradiction going on, because my friend bought hers with her from home.