Almost one million butts collected on No Butts Day 2025!
On No Butts Day – Saturday July 5th, 2025 – thousands of people from 25 countries around the world joined forces on 110 locations for the largest plastic cigarette filter action on the planet. Coordinated by the Dutch Plastic Cigarette Butt Collective, they collected 964,000 plastic 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 plastic cigarette filters.
Thank you all for joining and making No Butts Day into a big success!
You can pre-register for No Butts Day 2026 by sending us an email!
Register your cleanup 2026
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
Register your event
- Register a private or public event on the event-page
- Your event will be published on the world map
- 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!
Share your results
- Count the number of cigarette butts collected
- Share photos and videos on your channels with hashtags: #NoButtsDay #NoPlasticFilter
- Share # of participants and # of butts collected with Bernadette (you will receive an email with further instructions)
Global 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!
- Share the press release with your national, regional and/or local media!
Join an existing event
Use the map below to find an event near you. If registration is required, please do so through the contact information listed.
Worldmap No Butts Day 2025
Find an event near you, click on the orange dot and register through the details mentioned.
Legend
- Events No Butts Day 2025
Total No Butts Day events 79