Upcoming Conference!

Linking science and advocacy to protect our environment from cigarette butt pollution

June 1, 2012 from 9:00am-4:30pm

The David Brower Center, Kinzie Conference Room, 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA 94704

To register, please go to: www.toxicbutts2.eventbrite.com

Toxic Butts

They're everywhere. About 360 billion cigarette butts are consumed in the U.S. every year1 and these end up in streets, sidewalks, neighborhoods, college campuses, waterways, lakes, oceans...everywhere.

If cigarette butt waste was just litter that'd be bad enough. But it's not. Scientific studies recently proved cigarette butts are toxic waste.2 Really toxic waste.

Check out the information on this website, and if you're as shocked as we were, help us get the word out. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr. Look for our images, videos and webinars. Share what you see with your network. And join us! We'll post whatever you or your organization create to help spread these messages. Together we can raise the awareness about Toxic Butts.


Webinars

Our second webinar, on campus cleanups and advocacy: here

Our first webinar, on using social media for tobacco control advocacy: here

Videos

Our fifth video, "Montage of Cigarette Butts":

Our fourth video, "Is Your Campus an Ashtray?":

Our third video, "Butts on the Beach":

Our second video, "Toxic Waste":

Our first video, "Toxic Butts and a Goldfish":



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1. U.S Department of Agriculture. Tobacco Outlook Report, Economic Research Service, October 24, 2007. Available online: http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/usda/ers/TBS//2000s/2007/TBS-10-24-2007.pdf
2. Slaughter E, Gersberg R, Watanabe K, Rudolph J, Stransky C, Novtony TE. Toxicity of Cigarette Butts, and their Chemical Components, to Marine and Freshwater Fish, Tobacco Control, 2011; 20(Suppl 1).Available online: http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/20/Suppl_1/i25.full