Cigarette butts are the most-littered item on America's roadways, beaches and waterways.
It's estimated that last year, 287 billion cigarettes were sold in the United States, and an alarming number of those butts are ending up on America's roadways, beaches and parks, leading to high cleanup costs.
And in case you didn't know, butts contain carcinogenic chemicals and heavy metals which can leech into soil and waterways, putting animal life in danger and creating heavy costs for clean up efforts.
In a new survery across the country of 1,200 Americans:
-More than half didn't reliza that discarded cigarette butts are the number one item littered every year.
-Most reliaze they are toxic but did not know that they are not biodegradable.
-and 73% believe smokers should be responsible for cleaning up their cigarette butts after they smoke.
These toxic pieces of trash technically can be biodegradable under ideal conditions but in the real world outside of laboratory conditions, they merely break up into small particles of plastic.
