While we have all heard the recent push to eliminate plastic straws ... Should cigarette smokers be the target of litter campaigns and taxed more heavily per pack as they are the ones improperly ...

But another, even bigger, plastic problem has been slipping under the radar – cigarette filters. Cigarette butts containing plastic filters are the most littered item in the world.

As cigarette butts are often littered along with plastic packaging, which weighs an average 19g for a standard pack size of 20 cigarettes, this was also included in the calculations. The ...

A scorched battery case found ... Electronic Cigarette Association, said the industry knows of no problems with the cigarettes or batteries exploding. Kicklas said the rigid, plastic cigarettes ...

While bottles are highly recyclable, lightweight plastic packaging is often rejected by recycling operations because it clogs machinery. Cigarette butts, made of cellulose acetate, have long been ...

In 1987, the Associated Press reported that as many as one million seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals were killed every year by six-pack ... cigarette butts were the biggest source of plastic ...