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This Company Is Turning Discarded Cigarette Butts Into Plastic

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Cigarette butts are probably the grossest thing that you just see all over the place, and it probably should not surprise you to learn that they are also a very problematic pollutant. Citylab has an interesting profile one one company, TerraCycle, which has developed a way to recycle discarded butts and turn them into plastic. "There's nobody else who has been recycling cigarette filters," says the company's global vice president of research and development.