Litter Sources

FACT: 4.5 Trillion cigarette butts are thrown on the ground or in bodies of water each year. There are 7 billion people in the world. That means that every person in the world would need to pick up 642 cigarette butts a year in order to rid the earth of cigarette litter.

SOURCE: Bonanomi, G., Incerti, G., Cesarano, G., Gaglione, S.A., & Lanzotti, V. (2015). Cigarette Butt Decomposition and Associated Chemical Changes Assessed by 13C CPMAS NMR. PLoS ONE, 10(1), e0117393.

URL: http://www.plosone.org/article/fetchObject.actionuri=info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0117393&representation=PDF

SOURCE: Schlesinger, R. (2014, December 31). The 2015 U.S. and World Populations. U.S. News & World Report. Accessed 14 April, 2015.

URL: http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/robert-schlesinger/2014/12/31/us-population-2015-320-million-and-world-population-72-billion

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