Save Your Nips, They Are Needed At The Legislature!
Do you do a daily or occasional pick-up of roadside litter? Nips, which make up a lot of the litter on some roadsides, are mostly not recyclable, but now they have a use! They can be used to persuade the legislature to support legislation to reduce single use plastics, which will help to reduce litter and pollution in our area.
“Nips” are the miniature liquor bottles that in the past you got on an airplane or in a hotel room, but they are now sold directly to consumers in liquor stores. They allow the drinker to get a shot of hard liquor while operating a vehicle and then toss the container so they don’t have any incriminating open alcohol container in their vehicle. Some of the roadsides in Charlestown are loaded with these tiny empty bottles.
Members of Pick-up South Kingstown are picking up roadside nip litter and saving the nips to provide visual evidence to the legislature of the problem of both road side litter and the drinking while driving that nips represent. If you have a bucket of littered empty nip bottles, Pick-up South Kingstown would like to have them. From now until March 27, Pick-up South Kingstown wants your empty 50ml plastic alcohol nip bottles.
Post a comment or question at the Pick-up South Kingstown Facebook group and ask how to donate your empty nips, or send CCA an email at mail@charlestowncitizens.org and we’ll get you in touch with someone from Pick-up South Kingstown to arrange a retrieval of your empty nips.
Photo courtesy of Friends of the Saugatucket who are also spearheading the 2023 nip pick-up.
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January 4, 2023 @ 5:06 pm
“Hi Ruth, could we have a central collection location in Charlestown, town hall, dump, police station … if one or more of these had an empty drum that we could all add our nips to then the S Kingstown group could just access that? How about at the liquor stores in town :-))) ?? Rippy’s ???”