Anyone notice more and more of these gnarly cigarette filters littering our great outdoors?We do!
And it's quite sad, disgusting, and takes cigarette filters to a whole other level!
The volume and weight of one of these PLASTIC filters has got to have the equivalent of a bottled water cap or 50+ standard plastic fibrous filters we all know all too well.
I tried to get a comment from Middleton who manufactures them (An Altria/Philip Morris Co.) but they unsurprisingly declined! They too have absolutely no program in place to address this litter.
As if I wasn't already extremely disturbed with the irresponsibility of smokers who litter, this litter probably won't ever break down/biodegrade.
The photo shows how many of these NEW filters were part of a 4,875 batch of butts that Sophia & Alyson hand collected from the Mission Beach area.
Like all nonprofits, we need your "time" or "money" (or both).
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Cheers,
Curtis
www.RippleLife.org
Bye Bye Butts
