BUTTsOUT is focused on reducing cigarette butt litter. Using a BUTTsOUT buttholder is a simple and easy way for smokers to reduce the billions of cigarette butts that are littered every day.
*Washable, reusable and fire resistant.
1. Cigarette butt litter is the worldÕs greatest environmental litter problem.
2. Approximately 4.3 trillion cigarette butts are littered every year. Just in the USA alone over 250 billion butts are littered.
3. Almost 1 in 3 cigrette butts end up as litter.
4. Cigarette butts litter dramatically increases where indoor smoking bans are implemented.
5. It can take up to 12 years for a cigarette butt to break down.
6. Cigarette filters are made up of plastic.
7. A two year child can die from ingesting a cigarette butt.
8. Cigarette butts have been found in the stomachs of fish, whales, birds and other marine animals which leads to ingestion of hazardous chemicals and digestive blockages.
9. Cigarette butts can leach chemicals such as cadmium, lead, and arsenic into our marine environment within an hour of contact with water.
10. Only smokers can stop cigarette butt litter.