In August 2016, the Oklahoma City Office of Sustainability, OKC Beautiful and Downtown OKC, Inc. teamed up to install 23 aluminum, fire-resistant cigarette recycling stations in Downtown Oklahoma. And since then, more than 15,000 cigarette butts have been collected. The collected cigarettes are sent to N.J.-based TerraCycle, which composts the ash and tobacco and turns the remaining waste into hard plastic that can be remolded into industrial products.