No Filter Please – No Plastic Filter

More and more municipalities sign the call of the No (Plastic) Filter-campaign Municipalities have to deal with the effects on cigarette filters, from cleaning costs to less attractive living environments. That is why they increasingly support a cigarette filter ban. Increasing support  Seven large and small Dutch municipalities signed the call: Venlo, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The

There is no reason not to ban cigarette filters in the upcoming revision of the SUPD The Single-Use Plastic Directive (SUPD), introduced in 2019, banned single-use plastic (containing) items that were found most in litter and for which alternatives were available: cutlery, straws and stirrers and cotton buds. These measurements have had a tremendously positive

The cigarette filter should have never existed. For eight decades it has been merely a marketing tool for the tobacco industry to sell more cigarettes.  It is one of the most persistent beliefs surrounding cigarette filters: the filter protects people who smoke from the toxins of combustion. Years of research, however, show that this is

A ban on plastic cigarette filters risks lock-in: from one polluting and misleading product to another Three months into the campaign we changed our goal: from a plastic cigarette filter ban to an all filter ban. The decision didn’t come overnight: we knew it might sound radical and that we might lose support in society,

Former Dutch State Secretary for the environment Vivianne Heijnen wanted to put a ban on all single-use cigarette filters on the agenda of the revision of the European Union’s Single-Use Plastics Directive (in 2025), she wrote to parliament in 2023. Research by CE Delft showed that a ban is the only effective option to achieve

PRESS RELEASE – Today marks the launch of the international No Plastic Filter campaign, uniting voices across the planet for a ban on plastic cigarette filters. A growing coalition of citizens, businesses, institutions, scientists, NGOs and local authorities worldwide is calling on policymakers to take action. Quintessential to the campaign is the publication of this