Bratislava is pioneering a new way to recycle cigarette butts. The Slovakian capital’s municipal waste management company announced a new push to collect and reuse discarded cigarettes in 2024. During ...

It is well known that discarded cigarette butts release nicotine, heavy metals and other toxins into the environment, including natural water systems. Less understood, however, is what happens to the ...

Cigarette filters are completely useless and are only there to fool smokers into thinking they’re safer, according to scientists. Experts not only say the butts don’t actually work but they could even ...

Plastic straws and bags have received widespread attention as pollutants. But another, even bigger, plastic problem has been slipping under the radar -- cigarette filters. Cigarette butts containing ...

I laughed out loud while reading the brilliant ideas thrown about in “The World’s Most Littered Item Draws Fire” (Business & Finance, Aug. 1.) Save yourself the hassle of inventing a new cigarette ...

The 3 rd Generation AntiTar filters are effective for making smoking safer because they slash 90% of the cigarettes’ tar, and each one can be reused up to six times. Moreover, they’re claimed not to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock While they are marketed as the safer option, cigarette filters have been found to be more trouble than they ...

ALBANY — Democratic lawmakers want to ban the sale of single-use cigarette filters, commonly known as “butts,” in the state’s latest effort to rein in the tobacco industry. “Cigarette butts are ...

The most pervasive form of plastic pollution on Earth isn’t plastic bags or even plastic straws. It’s cigarette butts. Every year, an estimated 4.5 trillion cigarette butts, containing plastic filters ...

Tobacco Control, Vol. 20, Supplement 1: The Environmental Burden of Cigarette Butts (May 2011), pp. i10-i16 (7 pages) Background When lung cancer fears emerged in the 1950s, cigarette companies ...