Let’s Talk Butts

Why Surfboards Made of Cigarette Butts Might Save the World (or at Least the Ocean)

Let’s talk butts: cigarette butts.

Yes, those soggy, sad little stubs we’ve all seen wedged into sidewalks, floating in gutters, or—if you're lucky—jammed between your toes during a peaceful beach stroll. Fun!

Every year, trillions of cigarette butts are discarded. Not thousands. Not millions. Trillions. They’re the single most littered item in the world, and it turns out they don’t just disappear. Nope. They leach toxic chemicals, plastic fibers, and general grossness into the environment, especially our oceans.

Now, if this were a Disney movie, this is where a ragtag team of ocean lovers would emerge, armed with surfboards and optimism.
Oh wait—that actually happened.

Enter the Ciggyboard: a surfboard made out of—wait for it—recycled cigarette butts.

This isn’t some Instagram stunt. It’s a very real, very clever, very necessary project run by people who actually care about the ocean. Instead of waiting for the problem to fix itself (spoiler: it won’t), they’re literally picking up cigarette butts and transforming them into functional surfboards. Yes, boards. That surf. On waves. Made of butts.

And here’s where you come in: These guys have the know-how, the passion, and the prototype. What they don’t have (yet) is the funding to scale this up and make butt-boards a normal thing.

So they launched a crowdfunder, and they’re asking people like you (yes, you) to toss in a few bucks to help flip the script on ocean pollution.

Now you might be thinking: “But I’m just one person.”
True. But a single cigarette butt may seem small—until you multiply it by a trillion.
The same goes for a single donation.

So if you love the ocean, hate pollution, or just want to be able to tell your friends you helped make the first surfboard made of filtered trash, this is your moment.

Help fund the future.
Help fund the weird, brilliant, and very real Ciggyboard dream. Get off your butt!
Because saving the ocean shouldn’t just be a pipe dream—it should be a butt-board reality.