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  • About
    • About Us
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    • Bucks for Butts
    • CigCycle
    • Services
  • Campaigns
    • Petitions
    • Vapes
    • Cairns Butt Poles
    • Big Butt Hunt
    • Previous Campaigns
  • Resources
    • Report a Litterer
    • Data Collection
    • Blog
    • Media Centre
    • Downloads

JOIN OUR MISSION

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to rid the world of tobacco waste 

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Reducing cigarette butt litter in Cairns through community education


We follow the story of a cigarette butt carelessly discarded onto Country, before learning about the simple actions that can be taken together to prevent littering and stopping butts from polluting our environment.

DID YOU KNOW?

Up to 4.5 trillion butts are littered globally each year.

Up to 4.5 trillion butts are littered globally each year.

Up to 4.5 trillion butts are littered globally each year.

In Australia, a WWF report estimates that up to 8.9 billion cigarette butts are littered annually.


Clean Up Australia reports that cigarette butts are 14% of all recorded litter in Australia.


As a charity, No More Butts is taking action.

Butts are not bio-degradable

Up to 4.5 trillion butts are littered globally each year.

Up to 4.5 trillion butts are littered globally each year.

Research shows it can take up to 15 years for cigarette butts to break down in sea water. 


Cigarette butt filters contain cellulose acetate, a fibrous plastic.


There's No More Butts, something must be done.

Butts pollute our environment

Cigarette filters provide no health benefit

Cigarette filters provide no health benefit

In addition to causing hundreds of fires each year, up to 7,000 chemicals from butts leach into the environment.


This can harm our marine species and damaging soil quality.

Cigarette filters provide no health benefit

Cigarette filters provide no health benefit

Cigarette filters provide no health benefit

Cigarette filters (butts) are a single-use plastic. They are both problematic, unnecessary and avoidable.


As a charity, No More Butts advocates for a filter ban, as they provide no benefit to human health.

VAPING

The quick rise of vaping in our society introduced a new risk for the environment.


Learn more about what No More Butts has been doing to deal with this threat ... and how to dispose of your vape.

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OUR IMPACT

The amount of butts retrieved from the environment

The amount of butts retrieved from the environment

The amount of butts retrieved from the environment

Hours of volunteer time across Australia

The amount of butts retrieved from the environment

The amount of butts retrieved from the environment

Worth of pro-bono consulting hours

The amount of butts retrieved from the environment

Worth of pro-bono consulting hours

support OUR MISSION

As a registered charity, all donations to No More Butts over $2 are tax deductible for Australian tax payers.

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We acknowledge the Traditional Owners of Country throughout Australia and recognise their continuing connection to land, waters and culture. We recognise they have cared and maintained the beautiful environment for time immemorial. We would like to pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging and extend that respect to all Indigenous communities.

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