Researchers from the University of Gothenburg found that apart from being one of the most common forms of litter, cigarette butts (or filters) also leak thousands of toxins and plastic fibers into ...

Roughly 4.5 trillion cigarette filters pollute our oceans, rivers, city sidewalks, parks, soil and beaches every year,” said Dr Ruediger Krech, Director of Health Promotion at WHO. Products like ...

Most cigarette butts contain a filter made of cellulose acetate fibre, a type of a bioplastic. But researchers found filters from un-smoked cigarettes had almost the same effect on plant growth as ...