Campaigners have called for efforts to ban cigarette filters to be stepped up after volunteers collected over 600,000 cigarette butts on Plastic Buttsmut Day. Thousands of volunteers in the Netherlands and 13 other countries, including the United States, Israel, Argentina, Canada and Portugal, took to streets and parks on Saturday to collect the discarded butts. The initiative, which started life in 2019 in Amsterdam and is called Plastic PeukMeuk in Dutch, is aimed at raising awareness about the damage the…
Stub out polluting cigarette filters for good, campaigners say
