Hi, it's Kate Fawnton here from the podcast White Wine Question Time.

And White Wine Question Time, along with Keep Britain's idea here,

to let you know the ways that you can better care for the land on which we live.

I'm going to start today with some misconceptions around cigarette-related litter.

I'm here to bust some myths, including sharing with you some information

that I've only just discovered for myself.

So you would think, wouldn't you, that cigarette butts, for example, are pretty harmless.

I mean, they've been around as long as I've been around and they've made a paper.

You'd think that ultimately they would break down their biodegradable

and it turns out, guess what, they're not.

It takes 14 years, 14 years for a cigarette butt to break apart.

And whilst it's doing that, it's seeping toxins into the earth

that harm nature, contaminate waterways and pollute where we live.

Terrible when you think about it, especially when you find out that cigarette butts

make up to 66% of all litter, 66%.

I know, it's mind blowing, isn't it?

If you are a smoker, please, please, bin it or take your butts with you.

So as we did indeed build to full gear last year,

Maxwell Jacob Friedman was getting cheered all over the country.

Now this was half by design and half caused by all the brawl out after fallout.

No, that's not right, I mean the fallout after all out.

There we go.

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