Eliminate Tobacco Waste California!
Support California Senate Bill 424 to prevent cigarette butt litter through a ban on single-use cigarette filters and electronic cigarette or vaporizer devices.
Tobacco waste, including new electronic tobacco waste, comprise the largest category of beach litter. Cigarette butts, the number one most littered product in the world, disperse plastic, nicotine, heavy metals and many other chemicals into the environment. New electronic cigarettes are creating a new form of waste that includes the nicotine pod and li-ion battery. We need to close the loop on this waste and new California legislation will attack the problem with a ban single-use cigarette filters and electronic cigarettes in California with Senate Bill 24 (Jackson). This bill could help eliminate plastic cigarette butt filters that end up in our streets, waterways, beaches, and even in the stomachs of marine life.