Surfrider Foundation Annual Beach Cleanup Report Shows Large Amount of Cigarette Butts in Hawaii

Surfrider Foundation Annual Beach Cleanup Report shows large amount of Cigarette Butts in Hawaii

Surfrider Foundation is focusing on cleaning up smoking waste one butt at a time as they continue to make a difference year-round. With nearly 340,000 pounds of trash removed across the country, Surfrider's Network Volunteers found more than half of…

Surfrider Foundation: Butts should be held, not flicked

Cigarette butts are made of plastic, which means they cannot biodegrade and will only break down into smaller and smaller pieces to become increasingly harder to remove; they also leach thousands of toxic chemicals into the water.