Stub out polluting cigarette filters for good, campaigners say
1 year, 5 months ago

Stub out polluting cigarette filters for good, campaigners say

Dutch News  

Campaigners have called for efforts to ban cigarette filters to be stepped up after volunteers collected over 600,000 cigarette butts on Plastic Buttsmut Day. The initiative, which started life in 2019 in Amsterdam and is called Plastic PeukMeuk in Dutch, is aimed at raising awareness about the damage the plastics in discarded cigarette filters do to the environment, but campaigners also want a complete international ban on the filters. The Netherlands is aiming for 70% fewer filters in the environment in 2026, but raising awareness is not enough and the only remedy is a complete ban, campaigner Karl Beerenfenger said. “Even if we reduce the number of filters by 70%, that still leaves over a billion butts out in the streets each year.” Beerenfenger said the European Union missed an important opportunity to put cigarette filters on the list of banned single-use plastics, along with plastic drinking straws, cups and Qtips, in 2021.

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Stub out polluting cigarette filters for good, campaigners say
1 year, 5 months ago

Stub out polluting cigarette filters for good, campaigners say

Dutch News  

Campaigners have called for efforts to ban cigarette filters to be stepped up after volunteers collected over 600,000 cigarette butts on Plastic Buttsmut Day. The initiative, which started life in 2019 in Amsterdam and is called Plastic PeukMeuk in Dutch, is aimed at raising awareness about the damage the plastics in discarded cigarette filters do to the environment, but campaigners …

Clean-up campaign: Volunteers pick up more than 600,000 cigarette butts
1 year, 5 months ago

Clean-up campaign: Volunteers pick up more than 600,000 cigarette butts

NL Times  

During the international clean-up campaign "Cigarette Butt Cleanup Day", volunteers collected more than 600,000 cigarette butts on Saturday. The joint collection is an action of the so-called Plastic Peuken Collectief, which also calls for an international ban on plastic cigarette filters. One step has already been taken in recent years, as the Dutch government wants to introduce a European ban …

Ban is best way to stop cigarette filter menace: minister
1 year, 8 months ago

Ban is best way to stop cigarette filter menace: minister

Dutch News  

The best way of preventing cigarette filters from ending up in the environment is a ban, junior infrastructure minister Vivianne Heijnen has said in a briefing to MPs. Heijnen said that an outright ban has been shown to be the most effective option to achieve the government target of reducing the number of filters in litter by 70%. It could …

Netherlands lags on raising awareness of single use plastics ban
2 years, 3 months ago

Netherlands lags on raising awareness of single use plastics ban

Dutch News  

The Netherlands has not got to grips with EU legislation banning forms of single use plastic, according to a report by environmental campaigners. Although the ruling came into force on January 1 2022, the report says that some countries are ‘laggards’ in introducing local legislation, others are ‘unambitious’ and some have ‘adopted damaging measures or exemptions.’ Red mark The report …

Netherlands lags on raising awareness of single use plastics ban
2 years, 3 months ago

Netherlands lags on raising awareness of single use plastics ban

Dutch News  

The Netherlands has not got to grips with EU legislation banning forms of single use plastic, according to a report by environmental campaigners. Although the ruling came into force on January 1 2022, the report says that some countries are ‘laggards’ in introducing local legislation, others are ‘unambitious’ and some have ‘adopted damaging measures or exemptions.’ Red mark The report …

Animal rights MPs call for ban on plastic in cigarette filters
2 years, 10 months ago

Animal rights MPs call for ban on plastic in cigarette filters

Dutch News  

Cigarette filters containing plastic are highly polluting and should be banned in the Netherlands, according to a parliamentary motion submitted on Thursday by the pro-animal PvdD. Instead, they leach microplastics and chemicals, with consequences for the environment and animals that come into contact with them.’ Clean up In a clean-up day organised by Dutch anti-litter group the Plastic Soup Foundation …

Butting Out the Toxic: Kolkata Man on Mission to Collect, Recycle Cigarette Filters
3 years, 1 month ago

Butting Out the Toxic: Kolkata Man on Mission to Collect, Recycle Cigarette Filters

News 18  

At a passing glance, Nirit Datta cuts a bohemian-looking figure with a flowing long beard and a fast-talking demeanour but five minutes in a conversation with him makes it very clear that the former IT professional has a good head on his shoulders, and one that is filled with a strong desire to make a difference, however big or small. …

Butt out! Anti-plastic campaigners collect cigarette waste across Netherlands
3 years, 5 months ago

Butt out! Anti-plastic campaigners collect cigarette waste across Netherlands

Dutch News  

Eleven environmental organisations have organised a massive collection of discarded cigarette butts across the Netherlands ending on Saturday 10 July. Campaigners, who are walking from Amsterdam’s central station to Dam square, will use the cigarette butts they collect to make a giant artwork inspired by their hashtag #nofilterplease. ‘I think a lot of people are still unaware of how harmful …

Butt out! Anti-plastic campaigners collect cigarette waste across Netherlands
3 years, 5 months ago

Butt out! Anti-plastic campaigners collect cigarette waste across Netherlands

Dutch News  

Eleven environmental organisations have organised a massive collection of discarded cigarette butts across the Netherlands ending on Saturday 10 July. Campaigners, who are walking from Amsterdam’s central station to Dam square, will use the cigarette butts they collect to make a giant artwork inspired by their hashtag #nofilterplease. ‘I think a lot of people are still unaware of how harmful …

142,000 littered cigarette butts picked up in NL cleanup, awareness project
4 years, 3 months ago

142,000 littered cigarette butts picked up in NL cleanup, awareness project

NL Times  

Dozens of volunteers came together in 18 Dutch municipalities on Saturday to pick up littered cigarette butts, both as a cleanup project and to raise awareness about this form of plastic litter. A total of 142 thousand cigarette butts were picked up during the course of one afternoon, the Plastic PeukMeuk movement, a collaboration of environmental organizations, companies and citizens, …

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