BUTTWATCH

Welcome to BUTTWATCH!

We are on a mission to protect our planet from cigarette butts and we will go above and beyond.

Cigarette Butts

Cigarette butts are lit(t)erally everywhere.
They are the most littered item on our planet.
About 4.5 trillion cigarette butts are thrown away around the world EVERY YEAR!

Roughly 1 million butts are tossed on the ground EVERY DAY in Vancouver!

Info

Some Butt Facts

Cigarette butts contain plastic fibers, toxins (e.g. nicotine) and chemicals (e.g. benzene)
They don't biodegrade
They can be recycled
Butts are very harmful to marine and freshwater life

1 cigarette butt can kill half of the fresh/saltwater fish exposed to it.

Learn how

What can you do?

What Can You Do?

We can talk about cigarette butts and their impact on our environment for days, but that doesn't help either.
So, let's focus on what we can do instead!

INFORMATION

Get yourself informed

More Resources

EVENTS

Join us on any upcoming Buttwatch events

Events and more

CLEANUPS

Participate/organize cleanups

Join a Cleanup

SPREAD THE WORD

Hang up the poster in your neighbourhood and/or share it on social media.

Download the poster

Even Jim Carrey doesn't like cigarette butts ;-)

Plastic fibers in a cigarette butt filter

What Else Can You Do?

YES

Do You Smoke?

NO

CARRY POCKET ASHTRAYS

RECYCLE YOUR BUTTS

QUIT SMOKING

Get Your Pocket Ashtray Here

Recycle Your Butts Here

Tips On How To Quit

PATIENCE AND RESPECT
Be patient and respectful to others
Changing behaviour doesn't happen overnight
BUTT RECEPTACLES
Place cigarette butt receptacles in your community

Make Your Own Receptacle

EVERY LITTLE BUTT COUNTS!

Poster

The Buttwatch Poster

The poster was illustrated by Rafael De Leoz.
Check out his work here and follow him on Instagram.

Download the poster

Yasmin Schepens, former Ocean Bridge Ambassador, regularly picks up garbage in her neighbourhood. She noticed the huge number of cigarette butts littered on the streets, parks and beaches.
She wanted to bring awareness to this issue using humor and reaching a large group of people.
After doing some research, Yasmin came across the Vancouver Transit Shelter program and knew that this was the perfect medium to get her message across.

The poster was up in 10 transit shelters in Vancouver in the summer of 2022.