Cigarette Butts are Plastic Pollution

Most people think cigarette butts are made out of cotton and harmless to litter, but butts are actually non-biodegradable toxic plastic that can stick around in our waterways for up to ten years! Read on to learn more about this issue and to see how two global NGOs have found a recycling solution. 

• 3 MILLION CIGARETTE BUTTS ARE LITTERED AROUND THE WORLD EVERY MINUTE.[1]

• 80% OF CIGARETTES PRODUCED ARE LITTERED.[2]

• CIGARETTE BUTTS COMPRISE UP TO 50% OF URBAN LITTER,[3] AND ARE THE MOST LITTERED ITEM IN THE WORLD.[4]

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