Government proposes making tobacco industry pay to clean up cigarettes litter

Research has found smoking-related litter makes up 68% of all littered items

Cigarette butts “great for energy storage”

Old cigarette butts could be successfully recycled to store energy, claim South Korean researchers in a paper published this week. They believe this technique could reduce the “environmental burden” of discarded cigarettes. There must be plenty of butts in the world, with estimates suggesting six trillion cigarettes are produced every year. Cigarette filters are mainly […]