When my
Terracycle newsletter arrived today announcing their FREE
Bausch + Lomb Recycling Programme I immediately signed-in to my Terrcycle account, requested a free shipping label, then emailed it to my local post office to print because I don’t have a printer. Next, I boxed up all my lenses and blister packs, and when the netball season ends in three weeks, I’ll add the final ones and send them all off.
A City of Melbourne initiative is putting cigarette butts in the CBD to good use, recycling them into industrial products like shipping pallets and park benches.
More than 10,000 cigarette butts are littered in the CBD daily. As well as being unsightly, these butts can be harmful to marine life if they end up in waterways.
On Monday, City of Melbourne placed a perspex box filled with 200,000 cigarette butts in Queensbridge Square on the south bank of the Yarra River.
The display aims to promote the City of Melbourne’s long-term cigarette butt recycling scheme and to encourage Melburnians to butt out responsibly.
The City of Melbourne has become one of only two councils in Australia to run a citywide initiative to recycle millions of cigarette butts into industrial products, according to Lord Mayor Robert Doyle.
The City of Melbourne has partnered with Enviropoles, who collect the cigarette waste, and TerraCycle, who convert the butts into plastic products.
The City of Melbourne has partnered with Enviropoles, who collect the cigarette waste, and TerraCycle, who convert the butts into plastic products.
Melbourne's cigarette butts are being shipped to the United States to be recycled into street furniture, shipping pallets and ashtrays.
City of Melbourne councillor and environment portfolio chair Cathy Oke said the council had partnered with a recycling company for the scheme.
Funded by the Victorian government’s Litter Hotspots program, the project will see the City partner with
Enviropoles, which collects the cigarette waste, and
TerraCycle, which converts the butts into plastic products.
The City of Melbourne has partnered with Enviropoles, who collect the cigarette waste, and TerraCycle, who convert the butts into plastic products.
City of Melbourne councillor Cathy Oke spoke to ABC Radio Melbourne about cigarette butt recycling with TerraCycle.
The City of Melbourne is out to promote its participation in a scheme that’s set to sweep all the butts away by running a citywide initiative to recycle millions of cigarette butts into industrial products. To complete the initiative, the City has partnered with Enviropoles, who collects the cigarette waste, and TerraCycle, who converts the butts into plastic products.
