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Litter and Waste – Facts and Figures

  • Cigarette butts are one of the most littered items in the world. In fact, smokers litter about 4.5 trillion cigarette butts every year.
  • Litter is a fire hazard - a new fire starts every 12 minutes due to litter.
  • Litter also causes thousands of car and bicycle accidents on our roads every year.
  • Littering costs Americans many millions of dollars in taxes each year to clean up.

Keep America Beautiful, 2003.
Litterbug.org, 2003.

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