Cigarette manufacturers should be required by law to switch from using plastics in cigarette butts to a fully biodegradable alternative”, almost nine in 10 UK adults (86 per cent) agreed, while just one in 20 - 6 per cent disagreed.
According to a report published by the charity Keep Britain Tidy, cigarette butts are the country’s most littered item, and the least binned, with only 13 per cent of butts being correctly disposed of and 87 per cent being dropped.
Campaigners want the UK government to force cigarette manufacturers to use the biodegradable cigarette butt, developed by Greenbutts in the Yorkshire city, as part of its Bill on smoking due to go through parliament later this year.
But the Plastic Free Butt campaign is hoping to change this, by getting an amendment to the Government’s Tobacco and Vapes Bill, which will force cigarette manufacturers to move to plastic free bridgeable alternatives within 12 months.
This British invention could stop the world’s biggest cause of plastic pollution A campaign has been launched to make it compulsory for cigarette butts to be biodegradable.
