New ashcans will be handed out to smokers in the city centre this week as the Keep Cardiff Tidy partnership tackles smoking litter.
The small capsules are designed to fit into cigarette packets and smokers are encouraged stuff cigarette butts into the can after smoking – they can hold up to three fag ends at a time.
Staff from Keep Wales Tidy and council officers will be on Cardiff's streets this Friday to hand out the new ash cans. Cigarette and chewing gum bins have also been recently introduced to the city centre as part of the scheme to clean up Cardiff.
Executive member for the environment Margaret Jones said: "Quite simply, we need more smokers to realise that throwing away a cigarette butt may not seem as bad as throwing an empty can over their shoulder in a busy street, but the implications are exactly the same. By achieving this, we're another step closer to a cleaner Cardiff."
