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The Big Butt Problem: why tossing your cigarette into the gutter is not okay

Cigarette Waste Brigade Include USA TerraCycle cigarette recycling
Smokers are used to getting grief from the rest of society. Having been bombarded with graphic warnings about your certain death by cancer, frowned and tutted at for blowing filth-clouds at civilians, and forced out into the cold and rain, the least you can expect is to get a nicotine fix in peace. So you light up, inhale, and then with a casual flick of your finger send the filter of your cigarette arcing off into the gutter. Because, well, everyone does that, don’t they? And cig butts – they just kind of, go away, somehow… Don’t they?