ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — Recycling efforts increased in the last decade, but so has the use of single-serve plastics. The Tobacco Product Waste Reduction Act, introduced by Democratic state lawmakers ...

Collect those discarded cigarette butts. South Korean researchers have found a way to convert the used filters into a material that can be used to store energy. The study was published in the journal ...

Cigarette filters were widely introduced in the 1950s, ostensibly to make smoking less harmful. With growing public concern about lung cancer and other smoking-related diseases, the tobacco industry ...

Cigarette filters were widely introduced in the 1950s, ostensibly to make smoking less harmful. With growing public concern about lung cancer and other smoking-related diseases, the tobacco industry ...

Experts have called for the sale of filtered cigarettes to be banned to reduce the plastic pollution they cause. Trillions of cigarette butts are dropped on the ground every year and they're the most ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Plastic straws and bags have received ...

We’ve all seen it, the smoker who takes one last drag and flicks the cigarette butt onto the ground. It’s instant litter that California Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson wants to prevent by banning the ...

Conventional cigarette filters are made of cellulose–low-tech, old, but effective. Chinese scientists think new nanotech filters could do a better job at filtering out badness. It’s a desperate 21st ...

Cigarette filters are completely useless and are only there to fool smokers into thinking they’re safer, according to scientists. Experts not only say the butts don’t actually work but they could even ...

Plastic straws and bags have received widespread attention as pollutants. But another, even bigger, plastic problem has been slipping under the radar – cigarette filters. Cigarette butts containing ...

Plastic straws and bags have received widespread attention as pollutants. But another, even bigger, plastic problem has been slipping under the radar – cigarette filters. Cigarette butts containing ...