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Bookmark or Share- Cigarette butts in the environment: a growing global threat?Cigarette butts (CBs) are composed of cellulose acetate and are a significant source of anthropogenic waste. More than 4 trillion CBs are improperly discarded in natural and urban environments, resulting in the contamination of a variety of ecosystems.
- What’s the environmental impact of cigarette butts?What’s the environmental impact of cigarette butts? - BBC Science Focus Magazine.
- Cigarette Butts: Toxic Plastic Pollution | OceanCareAugust 3, 2023. Cigarette butts are a persistent form of toxic plastic pollution. Littered in the environment they do not biodegrade. Instead, they slowly leak a chemical cocktail of highly toxic and carcinogenic substances into soils, waterways, lakes, and the oceans.
- BUTT FAQs | cigwasteWhat is a cigarette butt? A cigarette butt is a combination of a plastic filter and the remnants of a smoked cigarette. The filter is non-biodegradable, and the tobacco remnant is toxic but biodegrades into the environment because it is an organic substance.
- Cigarette butts are toxic plastic pollution. Should they be banned?Cigarette butts are the top plastic polluters, with an estimated two-thirds of the trillions of filters used each year tossed into the environment. Photograph by Hannah Whitaker, National...
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