The unfortunate tenacity of the most common piece of litter

3:00am PST - December 15th, 2018    disneyland - Mashable

Eight years ago, in the town of Van Buren, Missouri, newly retired resident John Pope walked six blocks and picked up 1,085 cigarette butts. The unsightly, unpleasant litter problem — as we're all acutely aware — isn't confined to Pope's quiet community in so…