Normal filters for cigarettes are banned, which means that cigarettes will see a significant change.

As part of a green drive by the government, tobacco companies may be required to get rid of plastic filters in fags.

Ministers are fighting to eliminate throwaway products and have non-biodegradable cigarettes in their sights.

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In a soon-to-be launched consultation, tobacco companies and smokers will be asked their opinions.

To stop plastic cups, cups, and wet wipes polluting the environment, they will all be banned.

Ministers say the move will stem the tide of toxic waste which clogs up the world’s oceans and rivers, killing animals and wrecking the environment.

Environment Secretary George Eustice said: “Plastic damages our environment and destroys wildlife.

“This Government has waged war on unnecessary, wasteful plastics – banning the supply of plastic straws, stirrers and cotton buds.

“While our carrier bag charge has cut consumption by 95 per cent in the main supermarkets.

“But it’s time we left our throwaway culture behind once and for all.”

Downing Street will launch a consultation to ban single-use plastic plates, knives and forks in England and on polystyrene cups or containers in England.

When flushed, wet wipes which contain plastics create giant fatbergs which clog sewers and rivers.

Plastic straws, stirrers and cotton buds are already outlawed.But Brits still chuck away billions of single-use plastics every year.

Last year, England binned 4.25 billion pieces of plastic cutlery and 1.1 billion disposable plates.

Boris Johnson is determined to get the nation rid of throwaway plastics, as part his efforts to clean up our planet.