Cigarette filters release two dozen microfibers upon first contact with water, threatening wildlife and human health.

Cigarette butts are a major pollution problem, but new research shows they can be recycled into fast-charging energy storage ...

Do cigarette filters provide any benefits to the smoker, or were they simply created by the tobacco companies to make customers think they were addressing the health risks of smoking? Filters seem to ...

Cigarette filters, introduced decades ago to reduce the amount of tar smokers inhale, also alter other properties of smoke and smoking in a way that raises the risk of lung cancer, researchers say. In ...

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 ...

Tobacco Control, Vol. 20, Supplement 1: The Environmental Burden of Cigarette Butts (May 2011), pp. i10-i16 (7 pages) Background When lung cancer fears emerged in the 1950s, cigarette companies ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Cigarette filters introduced in the 1960s to reduce the health risks associated with smoking have actually increased the likelihood of ...

South Korean researchers have come up with a one-step process for turning cigarette filters into a material that can be used to store energy in supercapacitors ...

The brainchild of enterprising duo Ved and Chetana Roy, Karma Tips from Prasadam Industries are 100 percent organic, biodegradable and chemical free, handmade cigarette filter tips that release live ...

The most pervasive form of plastic pollution on Earth isn’t plastic bags or even plastic straws. It’s cigarette butts. Every year, an estimated 4.5 trillion cigarette butts, containing plastic filters ...

Background: More than 90% of the cigarettes sold worldwide have a filter. Nearly all filters consist of a rod of numerous (> 12 000) plastic-like cellulose acetate fibres. During high speed cigarette ...