Tobacco's impact on the environment. Emerit professor Thomas Novotny, United States
Dr. Novotny will review key scientific information about the life cycle of tobacco and its impact on the environment. The presentation will focus on upstream solutions to tobacco product waste.
Mountain of Shame & Chalk of Shame. Miquel Garau Ginard, Poland
Miquel helps people see two strategies: 1) collect cigarette butts to give the message "The Planet is not an ashtray" (Mountain of Shame). 2) do NOT collect the cigarette butts, instead circle them using chalk and educate the smokers (Chalk of Shame). Which strategy is the best one?
FiltraCycle: recycling cigarette butts to keep them out of the ocean. Rory McMahon, Ireland
Over the course of 2019 and 2020, FiltraCycle has been working on developing a process to collect and recycle cigarette butts into high-quality plastic. We have developed a method for extracting this plastic from cigarette butts and turning it into pellets that can be used in injection moulding. In this presentation, Liam and Rory will talk about the problem of cigarette waste and our solution.
How to prevent cigarette butts in cooperation with municipalities. Holger Holland, Germany
Cigarette butts are small, maybe even too small and they are rather no topic in public discussions and media. Even though they are single-use, nasty polluting the environment -soil plus ocean- and super toxoid. So the project: “Butt Buddy” was born. A cooperation between civil society, municipalities and companies with the target to raise awareness and prevent cigarette litter to end in the environment. Locally collected and recycled plastic (better CO² footprint) is the basis for the mobile cigarette ashtray. "Chalkofshame" is a further project that is meant to make a change. By circling the toxic cigarette butts with bright chalk, awareness is raised about the pollution butts cause. What looks like a “crime scene” is an eye catcher to all passers-by and is presented as a campaign to the local council… and these are only two examples.
Why should I care? Jason Alexander, United Kingdom
Jason is the founder of Rubbish Walks CIC (rubbishwalks.co.uk), an award winning social enterprise based in the UK. One of his key passions is developing innovative ways to raise awareness about the issues of cigarette butt litter. To date he has picked up 800,000+ cigarette butts as part of his #1millionbutts campaign and has designed and launched the world’s first Charity Cigarette Butt Bin.
Trashpocket - Let’s Bin The Butts! Patrick Ingell Hagerman, Sweden
We at the Trashpocket Team have an inspiring product and a clear message to all cigarette smokers: Let’s Bin The Butts and Keep it Clean! Tune in for the Trashpocket speech: The Trashpocket solution as a non-littering revolution!; How to re-learn and change the littering behaviour; Nairobi Mars 2021; The launch!
PANEL DISCUSSION ABOUT CIGARETTE BUTT LITTERING by Thomas Novotny, Jason Alexander, Patrick Ingell Hagerman, Miquel Garau Ginard.
Moderator Mart Normet, Estonia
