The Green Guide

Don’t Let Cigarette Stubs Destroy Our Planet!

Gareth Andrade is an 11-year-old student in Year 7 at The Winchester School who advocates for UN Sustainable Development Goal #14: Life Below Water. Since he was a little boy, he has been passionate about conserving sea animals, volunteering towards beach cleanups, being a conscious ecowarrior at home, at school and everywhere he goes. He and his brother launched the “Balloons Blow Don’t Let Them Go” campaign in Dubai, in November 2018, and since then he has collected thousands of pledges. Discarded cigarette stubs are highly toxic and harmful to marine wildlife. Just a single butt in one litre of water is enough to kill half of any fish present, according to research published recently. Cigarette stubs are the most common form of litter and eventually land in the ocean due to wind. They are consumed by animals and birds.

Sea creatures and land creatures are getting heavily affected by the mass of cigarette butts in the wild!

Cigarettes are smoked by over 1 billion people, and about 4.5 trillion individual butts pollutes our environment globally. We need to minimize the use of cigarettes.

Change Begins With Me

My family and I have been volunteering to clean up the beaches in Dubai, UAE since 2015, with the Project Mascot “Tilly The Turtle”. So far, Project “Tilly The Turtle” Volunteers, have collected over 3 Million Cigarette Butts and 300+Kgs of rubbish from the beaches in Dubai, UAE.

Stop Polluting the Oceans with Cigarette Butts

The Green Guide encourages you to be responsible and help clean up our planet by educating smokers about the dangers and how cigarette butts affect our planet.

Have a look at some of the chemical used in cigarettes!

Fill the form to Join Tilly The Turtle’s Cause for The Global Goal SDG14 Life Below Water https://forms.gle/sjpLvYHKMD5ph6s5A