"With 5.6 trillion filtered cigarettes consumed worldwide in 2002, and nine trillion expected by 2025, the global environmental burden of cigarette filters is significant. It is estimated that 1.69 billion pounds (845,000 tons) of butts wind up as litter worldwide per year."
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Introducing Thunder Bay’s Personal (Pocket) Ashtrays...
Keep cigarette butts off the ground and out of our waterways. 
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Many cigarette butts tossed on land end up in our streams and lakes via wind and storm water run-off.
Great for around town, in the car, hiking, fishing and hunting.
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Cigarette butts are the most littered item found in shore-line and on-land clean-ups.
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Cigarette butts are 95% plastic (cellulose acetate) and can take 15 years to break down.
Holds up to five cigarette butts and fits in a pocket or purse.
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When full, just empty the contents into the trash.
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Easy to clean.
Protect fish and wildlife from the toxic chemicals that leach from cigarette butts.
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Cigarette butts have been found in the stomachs of birds, fish and other animals that have mistaken them for food. They contain nicotine, cancer-causing benzenes and heavy metals.
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The chemicals from one cigarette butt in one litre of water killed 50% of the minnows in the container, in a 2009 San Diego State University study.
Pick up a free pocket ashtray at our office or at the Water Bar at many outdoor events.
Page last updated on Wednesday, April 11, 2012
