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 ...

More than a dozen coastal cities prohibited plastic straws ... a 60-cent per pack fee to raise roughly $3 million a year to help defray the cost of cleaning up discarded cigarette filters.

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. "Many smokers ...

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 ...

or even plastic bags, but cigarette butts. Cigarette butts are not only ubiquitous, but also their disposal has largely been unregulated, meaning a nearly unlimited number hit the seas.

He's in Paris to remind delegates that there's a source of single-use, non-biodegradable, highly polluting plastic that often goes unnoticed: discarded cigarettes. The cigarette butts picked up by ...

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 ...

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. "Many smokers ...