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The cigarette butt, the plague for nature
137,000 cigarette butts are thrown into the environment every second.
Runoff takes them to sewers, drains, lakes, or streams and ultimately to the ocean and its beaches.
Around the world around 2008, for about 5,600 billion cigarettes smoked per year, it has been estimated that about 4,500 billion cigarette butts were thrown into the environment
The cigarette butt is toxic, nicotine is not the only pollutant released by cigarette butts: a filter has been crossed by a smoke containing about 4,000 chemical substances
It takes
12 years
For a cigarette butt to degrade in nature
One butt can contaminate
1000 litres of water
And can pollute
1 m3 of snow
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