The world's most common type of litter, cigarette filters leach thousands of toxic chemicals and microplastics into the environment. Melissa Breyer was Treehugger’s senior editorial director before ...

Recycling is known as a solution for cigarette filter management, but this may cause the release of trapped pollutants in it. Cigarette smoke toxins and chemicals that trapped in the cigarette filter ...

Cigarette filters are the world’s most common form of litter. Researchers from the University of Gothenburg can now show that the filters leak thousands of toxins and plastic fibres that are toxic to ...