The world's most common type of litter, cigarette filters leach thousands of toxic chemicals and microplastics into the environment. Melissa Breyer was Treehugger’s senior editorial director before ...

The most pervasive form of plastic pollution on Earth isn’t plastic bags or even plastic straws. It’s cigarette butts. Every year, an estimated 4.5 trillion cigarette butts, containing plastic filters ...

We’ve all seen it, the smoker who takes one last drag and flicks the cigarette butt onto the ground. It’s instant litter that California Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson wants to prevent by banning the ...