The largest cigarette butt cleanup on the planet! Every year on the first Saturday of July. Join us in proving that only a ban on cigarette filters can tackle this problem.

Help us to ban cigarette filters. Register your event for No Butts Day 2026 now!

Every first Saturday of July thousands of people from countries around the world join forces for the largest cigarette filter action on the planet. Coordinated by Bernadette Hakken from the Dutch Plastic Cigarette Butt Collective, they collect cigarette filters from their local streets, parks, and waterways. The event originated in The Netherlands in 2019, and grew into an international action.

No Butts Day is an effective way to raise awareness about the environmental damage caused by cigarette filter litter. Despite what the tobacco industry claims, this problem can’t simply be cleaned up. The only real solution is to ban cigarette filters.

Thank you all for joining and making No Butts Day into a big success!

Coordinators Bernadette Hakken (Ms. Cigarette Butt) and Anton Damen (Plandelman)

No Butts Day 2020 - Netherlands - No Plastic Filter

How to participate

Register or join event

Register a private or public event or join an existing one

Your event will be published on the world map (see below)

People can join your public event by using the details you provide

Coordinator Bernadette will send instructions on how to share your results with us!

Register event

Take action

Download instructions (EN/NL/DE)

Participate alone or with a group

Invite local, regional or national media (if you want!)

Bring gloves and a bucket (or something)

Collect cigarette butts on July 4th, or in the week before

Collect cigarette butts as you long as you want

Instructions

Share results

Count the number of cigarette butts collected

Share photos and videos on your channels with hashtags: #NoButtsDay #No(Plastic)Filter #Filterban

Share # of participants and # of butts collected with Bernadette (you will receive an email with further instructions)

Press Release

On July 5th we will send out a global press release in different languages (EN/FR/ES/NL/DE) with the total number of locations and people that participated, the total number of cigarette butts collected and our joint global call for a ban!