Downtown Oakland Association has plans to decrease the amount of cigarette buds that are thrown on the streets by implementing ashtrays in high traffic, bar scene areas. These won’t just be any ashtrays, but SPECIAL ones!

An organization called TerraCycle will provide Downtown Oakland with ashtrays and swing by regularly to clear them out. TerraCycle is an innovative recycling company that has become a global leader in recycling hard-to-recycle waste. Instead of the cig buds going towards their normal destination, the landfill, TerraCycle will use a special process to convert the buds back into everyday products.