Cigarette butts as a source of microfibers to the environment

Several clean-up campaigns have reported that cigarette butts (CB for now on) are the largest item littered worldwide [1]. In 2007, the annual global consumption of cigarettes ascended to 6 trillion, [2, 3, 4] from where approximately 4.5 trillion CBs were carelessly dumped into the environment [5, 6]. Hence, CBs constitute a worldwide and severe toxic litter disposal problem [7]. Yet, little attention is put onto this pollutant

CitationBelzagui, F. [et al.]. Cigarette butts as a source of microfibers to the environment. A: "Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Microplastic Pollution in the Mediterranean Sea". Springer Nature, 2020, p. 266-271.

URIhttp://hdl.handle.net/2117/335612

DOI10.1007/978-3-030-45909-3_42

ISBN978-3-030-45909-3

Publisher versionhttps://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-030-45909-3

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