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Environmental clean ups consistently environment with their products. isn’t biodegradable, even under severe

report cigarette butts as one of the With the rise in usage of electronic conditions. There is little guidance
most picked up items. Oft en thrown cigarettes and vaping products the from manufacturers for safe disposal
on the ground or out the window of a waste produced from them is a of products when they are no longer
car, folks may not realize the depth of concerning environmental threat. usable.
their toxicity.
Vapes contain an array of metals, Wildlife, as well as household pets,
Carelessly discarded cigarette butts circuitry, single use plastics, batteries may ingest toxic tobacco trash which

can start fires and endanger the and chemical residues from e-liquids. can cause illness or death. Tobacco
environment. Vape devices and their batteries can trash also harms our waterways. It is
contain lead and mercury. Th eir waste carried by storm runoff into streams

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