- Cigarette butt litter is so widespread that it's regarded as the world’s number one environmental litter problem.
- Cigarette filters are
composed of cellulose acetate, a plastic that can take
anywhere between 18 months and 500 years to break
down.
- It takes one second to drop a cigarette butt. It would take one person working eight hours a day nearly 20 years to collect the estimated 200 million cigarette butts that are dropped each day.
- Cigarette butts are legally classed as LITTER.
- Dropping LITTER is illegal and you can be fined.
- You can avoid a Fixed Penalty Notice by being a responsible individual and disposing of your cigarette litter appropriately.
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