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Over 2 million cigarette butts are littered or dropped in the Gosport constituency, and that figure will be replicated in every constituency across the country. It is litter that we are all paying to clean up: it costs a local council on average about £40 million a year. Inevitably, many cigarette butts are flushed into our waterways, our rivers and our seas. In fact, they account for 66% of all littered items in the UK: it is pretty grim.