When a cigarette butt is tossed to the ground, it sets off a chain of events that harm our environment. Cigarette litter is ...

Cigarette butts are the most common form of litter worldwide. Trillions are discarded every year in cities, parks, beaches, along railway tracks and roadside environments. Despite their small size, ...

LUFKIN, Texas (KTRE) - It’s something that you don’t notice at first glance, and it can be easily overlooked. It’s the issue of cigarette butt litter. “Cigarettes are the single largest of any ...

Visitors sometimes leave stuff behind at Great Lakes beaches. Broken pieces from plastic toys or bits of styrene from coolers can get lost in the sand. One of the most common pieces of plastic trash ...

Cigarettes are America’s most littered item. It’s causing a crisis in large American cities; the ashtrays once found outside of public buildings and select spaces in schools and airports are no longer ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful announced this week it will make a new effort aimed at cleaning up tobacco-related litter at rest stops along the Pennsylvania Turnpike. The organization ...

FOR THE FAMILIES. SO THE PENNSYLVANIA TURNPIKE AND KEEP PENNSYLVANIA BEAUTIFUL ARE TEAMING UP TO PREVENT CIGARETTE LITTER AT TURNPIKE SERVICE PLAZAS. JOINING US NOW IS HEIDI PEDICONE, THE DIRECTOR OF ...

New York City has the highest cigarette taxes in the nation, but Rutgers Health research indicates that many smokers illegally avoid them. Most cigarette packs littered on city streets came from ...

Researchers have developed a specialized autonomous robot to remove waste particles and help restore environmental balance. A team at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Genoa has created a ...

PENNSYLVANIA — Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful partnered with the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission to implement the Cigarette Litter Prevention Program (CLPP) at 17 service plazas. Seventy ash receptacles ...

Research Fellow, School of Public Health, The University of Queensland Kylie Morphett is an affiliate of the NHMRC funded Centre for Research Excellence on Achieving the Tobacco Endgame. Her research ...

THE GOAL IS TO HAVE IT READY FOR STUDENTS TO ENROLL BY 2024. THE CITY OF AMES IS WORKING TO CLEAN UP CIGARETTE LITTER IN THE STREETS. AMES PUBLIC WORKS GOT A GRANT ...