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

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 on cigarette filters, Rheden Nieuws reported. "It's fantastic how many cigarette butts have been collected," said Bernadette Hakken, organizer of PeukMeuk.