More on Tobacco Litter

• Even if properly disposed, cigarette butts are hazardous solid waste because tobacco contains many known human carcinogens.

• Tobacco waste is washed by the rain or by street cleaning from urban sidewalks and streets into the storm drains, and then sometimes piped to beaches at urban areas.
  • Southern California

• Cigarette butts remain the most littered item in America.
  • They make up one-third of the litter found on beaches.

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