{"id":240874,"date":"2023-11-15T06:45:36","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T06:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lovemainstream.com\/?p=240874"},"modified":"2023-11-15T06:45:36","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T06:45:36","slug":"how-many-cigarette-butts-are-dropped-on-uk-high-streets-every-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lovemainstream.com\/world-news\/how-many-cigarette-butts-are-dropped-on-uk-high-streets-every-day\/","title":{"rendered":"How many cigarette butts are dropped on UK high streets every day?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Around 2.7 million cigarette butts are dropped on UK high streets every day &#8211; nearly a quarter of a million an hour, figures show<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Research shows\u00a0225,000 butts are dropped between 8am and 8pm each day<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Nearly a quarter of a million cigarette butts are dropped on UK high streets every hour, according to new figures from Keep Britain Tidy.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers estimated that around 2.7million cigarette butts are discarded on high streets on a daily basis &#8211; which amounts to around 225,000 butts being dropped between the hours of 8am and 8pm each day.<\/p>\n<p>As high streets make up just a small proportion of the UK&#8217;s public thoroughfares, the figure for cigarette butts dropped across the whole of the country will inevitably be much higher.<\/p>\n<p>Keep Britain Tidy, which arrived at its findings after analysing litter collected, estimated that over 12 billion cigarette ends are dropped globally every single day.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Mail has long campaigned against the scourge of litter, having supported for many years the Great British Spring Clean, organised by Keep Britain Tidy.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/15\/01\/77810139-0-image-a-35_1700011492702.jpg\" height=\"951\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Keep Britain Tidy, which arrived at its findings after analysing litter collected, estimated that over 12 billion cigarette ends are dropped globally every single day<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/15\/01\/77810135-0-image-a-36_1700011506000.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Keep Britain Tidy has created a mound using real butts to show what smokers&#8217; litter looks like<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/15\/01\/77810597-12750373-image-a-56_1700012540879.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>According to the charity, cigarette butts are the most prevalent form of litter in the UK<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/15\/01\/77810595-12750373-image-a-57_1700012543603.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Cigarette butts take between 18 months and 10 years to decompose. But in that time, they can release poisonous chemicals into the environment<\/p>\n<p>Research has found smokers are three times less likely to see cigarette butts as problem compared to non-smokers (seven per cent vs 23 per cent), whereas attitudes to nearly all other types of litter are nearly identical between smokers and non-smokers.<\/p>\n<p>Keep Britain Tidy has created a mound using real butts to show what smokers&#8217; litter looks like collectively.<\/p>\n<h3>READ MORE &#8211;\u00a0Give yourselves a hand! Great British Spring Clean ends&#8230; with 437,000 heroes joining the tidy-up campaign\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p>According to the charity, cigarette butts are the most prevalent form of litter in the UK, accounting for 66 per cent of all items.<\/p>\n<p>Keep Britain Tidy&#8217;s Allison Ogden-Newton said: &#8216;Cigarette butts are the most littered item in the UK and the consequences to our environment, our wellbeing, and our taxpayer are far more significant than many realise.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;A quarter of a million butts are dropped every hour on UK high streets alone &#8211; these areas are cleaned regularly, but the hour-by-hour deluge of butts makes the task of cleaning them up like painting the Forth Bridge &#8211; once you&#8217;ve finished, you just have to start again.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We need attitudes to change towards cigarette litter so that it is no longer viewed as acceptable, but rather as the single use plastic that it is.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/15\/01\/77809767-0-image-a-30_1700010746787.jpg\" height=\"430\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Keep Britain Tidy&#8217;s Allison Ogden-Newton with her OBE medal<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/15\/01\/77810079-0-image-a-34_1700011281894.jpg\" height=\"427\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>As high streets make up just a small proportion of the UK&#8217;s public thoroughfares, the figure for butts dropped across the whole of the country will inevitably be much higher<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We are asking smokers to please understand that they are contributing to a significant environmental issue in the UK and to take responsibility for disposing of their rubbish&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Cigarette butts take between 18 months and 10 years to decompose. But in that time, they can release poisonous chemicals into the environment.<\/p>\n<p>The cigarette butts survey is the first of its kind, so no comparison figures are available for previous years.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12750373\/million-cigarette-butts-dropped-UK-high-streets-day-figures-show.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around 2.7 million cigarette butts are dropped on UK high streets every day &#8211; nearly a quarter of a million an hour, figures show Research shows\u00a0225,000 butts are dropped between&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240873,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How many cigarette butts are dropped on UK high streets every day? 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