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WORLD RECORD OF CIGARETTE BUTT CLEAN UP

On Saturday May 29, 2021, with more than 1200 citizens and in 3 hours 0 Mégot set the world record for cigarette butts. Picking up more than 855,000 cigarette butts in 3 hours with the help of the Surfrider association and 10 other associations.

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A movement
 

We are not celebrating this sad record, but the commitment of citizens. There were more than 1,200 of us: children, students, adults...to get together to pick up cigarette butts in Paris.

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Raising Awareness

A village at the Pont d'Iena to highlight important messages on the pollution of cigarette butts.

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Recycled cigarette butts 
 

The cigarette butts collected will be recycled.

1. Two surfboards to arouse curiosity and highlight this issue.

2. Awareness panels for the city of Paris, by EcoMégot.

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Mr. MEGOT

1 cigarette butt can pollute up to 500 liters of water and will take over 10 years to fully decompose

67% of cigarette butts end up in nature, that's 4500 billion each year

The first source of pollution in our oceans

 

The 3rd source of pollution in freshwater sources

 

2 million euros, the estimated yearly cost for the city of Paris for the collection of cigarette butts on the streets

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