The team determined that every cigarette filter-infused asphalt variant was more resilient than conventional asphalts. On top ...

Smokers around the world buy roughly 6.5 trillion cigarettes each year. That’s 18 billion every day. While most of a cigarette’s innards and paper wrapping disintegrate when smoked, not ...

A campaign, the Cigarette Butt Pollution Project, hopes to ban cigarette filters, which are made from cellulose acetate, a type of plastic that can take over a decade to decompose, according to NBC.

A Jersey Shore community is undertaking an innovation solution to a problem that has long plagued beaches: cigarette butts. Cape May County’s North Wildwood is partnering with TerraCycle, the world’s ...

Cigarette butts aren't just bad for the environment; they could be affecting our health too. Understanding these risks is the first step toward creating a cleaner, safer future.

Cigarette butts, which have plastic filters, were again the top item collected by volunteers in 2023, with 190,654 removed from beaches.

In October 2018, the European Parliament backed a radical proposal to oblige EU countries to remove 50% of plastic from cigarette filters by 2025, and 80% by 2030.

Plastic pollution from cigarette butts likely costs US$26 billion/year or US$186 billion over 10 years Relatively small compared with overall toll of tobacco, but costs cumulative and preventable.