The Butts Remain
Everyone knows that smoking is bad for your health. Turns out it’s not so good for the health of the planet, either. Cigarettes might go up in smoke but the butts remain and account for 1.7 billion pounds of non-biodegradable trash.
According to ButtsOut, cigarette butt litter is the world’s greatest environmental litter problem with approx 4.3 trillion cigarette butts tossed onto roads, pavements, beaches, parks, forests and in waterways every year.
Further breakdown indicates that smokers in the U.S. account for over 250 billion cigarette butts, those in the …
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