The EU's prohibition on microplastics eliminates cigarette smoke pollution

Since May 2018, the EU has been attempting to combat the top ten types of trash seen on Europe's beaches, with cigarette butts being the second most common. It introduced a key directive as part of the European Strategy for Plastics in a Circular Economy, which aims to phase out unneeded single-use plastics. This directive targets tobacco through the environmental damage caused by cigarette butts, of which 4.5 trillion are discarded each y....