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Comment by dylan604

20 hours ago

Only 146 cigarette butts? That's amazingly much lower than I would have expected.

That's not just amazing, it's inconceivable! I can go on a hike on almost any trail in the SF Bay Area and pick up a half dozen in a couple hours.

  • Yeah, that was where I was coming from. I know very few people that stub out their ciggy and then put the butt in the pocket to dispose of later, but I do know a couple. You'll get responses arguing how the filters are degradable now so it's no big deal when in truth it would be much less of a big deal if people just didn't toss them willy nilly.

I think that’s how many were actually found over the limited testing areas. You would need to multiply by the testing area ratio