World’s largest cigarette cleanup coming to Ontario communities this month [Video]

The world’s largest cigarette cleanup campaign is coming to Oshawa this month, part of a nationwide campaign to collect one million cigarette butts in April and another 500,000 in September.

A Greener Future and UNSMOKE Canada will be hosting their sixth annual Butt Blitz in April, with a stop in Oshawa next Thursday at Oshawa Hospital from 10 a.m. to noon.

Cigarette butts harm wildlife, pollute waterways, and release microplastics and are the most littered item in the world, making up one in five pieces of litter found during Butt Blitz clean-ups since the first campaign in 2015. To date, nearly five million pounds of litter, including more than five million cigarette butts, have been removed and sent to environmental partner TerraCycle Canada for recycling.

Internationally, UNSMOKE has properly disposed of more than 10 million discarded cigarette butts since 2020 through 101 community projects staffed by thousands of volunteers nationwide.

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