What is the most common garbage found in the ocean?

Many people think that plastic bags are the most common piece of garbage in the ocean, but they’re not. Cigarette butts?? are worse than microplastics!

?Every year, 5.6 trillion filtered cigarettes are produced around the world. The filter is made from a type of plastic called cellulose acetate. One filter releases thousands of alkaline particles into the environment and takes an average of ten years to decompose.

?Cigarette butts are often found in the stomachs of fish, birds, turtles, and other marine animals. They cause toxic poisoning in animals and pose a threat of suffocation.

?Unfortunately, the world still prefers not to notice the problem of cigarette-filter pollution at all.

?What do you think can be done to solve the cigarette butts situation?

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