Apartment Complex Clean-Up Plan

The Landing apartments are a mess. There is litter everywhere, inside and out. The majority of the populous are college students, in the age range of 17 to 24, but there are also families. I began taking mental note as soon as I learned of the litter assignment. I live in these apartments, and how it looks is important to me. I fully intend to follow through with my intervention plan, which is simple, cost-effective, convenient and...awesome.
One day I took a long walk, covering every hallway in every apartment, as well as every courtyard and the parking lots. The complex is large but the walk didn't take me more than two hours. I have noticed a great amount of the litter is cigarette butts thrown on the ground or dropped in the hall, which coincides with what Kab.org says. There's a lot of other trash as well and -according to my observation- no outdoor trashcans, save the dumpsters which are also surrounded with garbage in bags and furniture pieces. There were some fast-food wrappers, most of which were in the parking lots, probably dropped from cars. I found three socks in separate hallways, which I thought was weird. Beer cans, bottles, boxes and bottle caps were more common than pop or juice bottles, which may have something to do with the number of alcoholic college kids in the area. It was fairly disgusting to really take a close look, so I was anxious to come up with a way to make this place litter-free.
First, I'd like to deliver letters to each apartment in the complex. This would take only my own man-power and perhaps the help of my boyfriend or another friend. I will a black-and-white flier with artistic eye-catching design, and it will read "Hello, Landing Neighbors! Have you noticed how gross it's getting around here? It could be so easy to clean this place up! I'll be back next Friday to take any ideas or thoughts you might have, as well as collecting coffee tins for cigarette butt disposal, and looking for helpers! There's a wonderful reward to come your way if you help! Thanks so much, your friend, Katee, 3320-202." It's friendly, simply written and promises a reward. People love rewards, but due to my lack of specificity in the note, I am not obligated to provide them with anything too wonderful. In fact, I may later tell them, when asked, that their reward is the beautification of our homes, or give them a hand-made craft, bracelet or picture. The office of my apartments allows free copying, so the whole flier endeavor would take no money and limited effort on my part. As for the residents, all they have to do is open their door at some point, and read the note. A very simple first step.
I would take a day to go to each apartment and talk. I'm a good talker and our conversations would most likely be effective in convincing people to do a little extra. I would ask for small donations, spare change or empty cans to fund the rest of the project. I would offer a list of ways to help (again self-written and copied for free), which would have these suggestions, among others- Take your garbage out more often- it won't overflow! Toss your cigarette butts or small trash in the new butt cans! Cans are ten cents- save em, don't toss em! Check the ground after you exit your car, you drop anything? Pick some trash up- even if it's not yours. Hold on to those candy wrappers! If people were friendly enough, I would gather tins for the butt cans, and ask some people if they were interested in decorating one. I believe an aesthetic butt can is defiantly best. Based on the number of volunteers, I will decorate a number of the cans myself or with close friends, with materials I already own. I love when things are free.
The next step is yet another I carry out by my own man-power and help of friends. I will buy a number of garden hooks or similar devices to hang the butt cans on with wire. This puts them closer to the hand of a smoker increasing convenience, and also makes it more likely to be seen, especially with all the decorations. It also helps lower the probability that fire will spread if paper trash touches a lit cigarette. I'll post one butt can at each entrance to each apartment building, staking them deep into the ground to prevent them from falling over. A fairly cost effective way to make not littering easier.
Over the next few weeks as I watch my plan work, I will keep up friendly interaction with other people in the complex, which is easy since I live here. After one week or so, I will deliver another friendly batch of fliers, copied at no cost and creatively designed. The fliers will show a huge smiley face and say something along the lines of "Good work guys, the butt cans are working!" There will be a end note that says "The building with the fewest butts on the ground next Friday wins a pizza party!" I can personally cover the cost of the pizza party, a cost I consider to be reasonable, especially considering I will be attending the party of whatever building wins.
I'll take numeral observation of the cigarette butts and other trash every day of at least five of the cans, and maybe force my boyfriend to do the same. I'll also keep mental note of the trash I see in the halls, courtyards and parking lot. Regardless of the outcome, the cans will stay up, and I may very well continue with friendly little notes, and will mention littering every time I talk to a resident. I will also ask our landlady, a friend of mine, to post something encouraging in the complex newsletter. So simple, so free.
The entire process would take about a week. The "Ifs and Buts" are that the posters would create more litter, (I would personally pick them up on my rounds) that I may not get enough cans (buy plastic pails at the dollar store, funded by donations and my own money) or that people could vandalize the butt cans or litter just to spite "that weird girl" (I would have to destroy them), among a few other possibilities that will always exist in these sorts of interventions. Overall, however, it's the perfect intervention for the situation.