"Why are you even visiting a beautiful, natural area if you clearly have no respect for it?" Hiker outraged after making ...

A sweeping ban on smoking in outdoor public spaces is expected to help stub out the scourge of cigarette butts – France’s ...

Cigarette butts, the plastic pollution that's hiding in plain sight. As nearly 200 countries discuss how to cut plastic pollution at UN talks in Paris this week, environmental campaigners are ...

A slew of new Illinois taxes and laws for 2025 went into effect overnight as the calendar turned to July 1. Many of the changes and new taxes mean some things in the state will wind up costing more, ...

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.

Trillions of cigarette butts are thrown into the environment every year, where they leach nicotine and heavy metals before turning into microplastic pollution. By Tik Root August 9, 2019 ...

It did not take long to find cigarettes butt, and I mean a lot of cigarette butt, pollution. "How far did we walk? 100 feet and we got 50 butts. That's crazy.

Using tobacco costs an average of 2.2 years, but breathing polluted air does even more damage. ... A study identified air pollution as the world’s top threat to public health.

“The study calls attention to the problem of cigarette butts as a leading source of plastic pollution and the potential for menthol bans to reduce single-use plastics,” says Geoffrey T. Fong ...

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Air pollution is now Nepal’s biggest health threat, causing 26,000 deaths and slashing life expectancy by 3.4 years. #NepalAir #ToxicAir ...

References [1] Cigarettes butt littering: The story of the world’s most littered item from the perspective of pollution, remedial actions, and policy measures. Journal of Hazardous Materials ...