Cigarette butts stink – and are a major cause of plastic pollution
Around 15 billion cigarette butts are tossed on the ground by South Africans every year, and each one of them is not only a toxic...
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National and regional policies
National and regional policies
National and regional policies
National Council Against Smoking
NPC
Tackling the cigarette butt pollution emergency
People used to collect seashells and pebbles at the beach. But this summer, collecting cigarette butts is in. In recent days, the...
Bin The Butt
Did you know? Cigarette butts on streets end up in waterways ... One cigarette butt can contaminate a litre of water so severely that...
#BantheButt: Stomping Out Plastic Pollution in Africa
Discarded cigarette butts are seemingly everywhere. Not just unsightly and unhygienic, these cigarette remnants harm vegetation and...
Kenyan tobacco farmers are better off not growing tobacco, findings from two surveys reveal
During the week of July 29th, 2019, researchers from the International Institute for Legislative Affairs (Kenya) and the American Cancer...
How Cigarette Butts Pollute the Environment
Thousands of smokers don't think twice about leaving a trail of cigarette litter behind them. According to Keep America Beautiful (KAB),...
Cigarette butts are toxic plastic pollution. Should they be banned?
Trillions of cigarette butts are thrown into the environment every year, where they leach nicotine and heavy metals before turning into...
Why There Is A Piece Of Child Labour In Every Cigarette-Tobacco Cultivation In Africa
Almost one third of adults smoke everywhere in the world. In Germany, a total of 25.1 billion euros was spent on tobacco products in...
It doesn’t matter whether the cigarettes are smoked or not, cigarette butts prevent proper developme
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Experts say cigarette butts — not plastic straws — are largest human-caused pollutant
The plastic straw has been at the forefront of conversations about damaging man-made waste but cigarette butts have turned out to be an...
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