How much butt litter is there?
• Cigarette butts account for 56 per cent of all litter in Victoria, making butts the most littered item in the state Butts have consistently made the top ten list of items picked up in the Clean Up Australia Day rubbish report since the first Clean Up Australia Day in 1990 • Around 7.2 billion cigarette butts are littered in Australia each year – if laid end to end the line of butts would circle the earth 3.6 times! • Cigarette butts may seem small, but with an estimated 4.5 trillion butts (worldwide) littered every year, the toxic chemicals add up!
