On No Butts Day, every first Saturday of July, thousands of people from 25 countries around the world joined forces for the largest plastic cigarette filter action on the planet.

Coordinated by the Dutch Plastic Cigarette Butt Collective, they collected 964,000 plastic cigarette filters from their local streets, parks, and waterways. The event originated in The Netherlands in 2019, and grew into an international action. No Butts Day is an effective way to raise awareness about the environmental damage caused by cigarette filter litter. Despite what the tobacco industry claims, this problem can’t simply be cleaned up. The only real solution is to ban plastic cigarette filters.

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