No butts day - Tobacco Reporter https://tobaccoreporter.com Tue, 08 Jul 2025 21:10:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 Volunteers Pick Up 1M Cigarette Butts https://tobaccoreporter.com/2025/07/08/volunteers-pick-up-1m-cigarette-butts/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=volunteers-pick-up-1m-cigarette-butts Tue, 08 Jul 2025 21:10:08 +0000 https://tobaccoreporter.com/?p=164574 The initiative, launched in the Netherlands in 2019, aims to raise awareness of cigarette filter pollution and advocate for a global ban on plastic filters.

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]]> On July 5, volunteers from 25 countries collected nearly 1 million cigarette butts on as part of the expanding global clean-up campaign known as “No Butts Day.” The initiative, launched in the Netherlands in 2019, aims to raise awareness of cigarette filter pollution and advocate for a global ban on plastic filters.

In Leiden, Netherlands, local environmental group Grachtwacht hosted its fifth annual clean-up, with 30 volunteers gathering over 35,000 cigarette butts in just two hours. One volunteer reported collecting over 750 butts near a central café, while others found hun-dreds more outside Leiden University Medical Center.

Organizers blamed the spike in litter this year on the recent heatwave and crowds drawn by the city’s annual Lakenfeesten festival.

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