Did you know cigarette butts can be recycled? TerraCycle, a New Jersey based company has found a way to recycle the filter, which is made of plastic. The National Institutes of Health estimates that around 4.5 trillion cigarettes end up in the environment each year as litter.
Steamboat Springs' restaurant and business owners encourage their cigarette-smoking customers and employees to properly dispose of their cigarette butts by providing ash receptacles in order to mitigate waste and litter on their property. On Lincoln Ave there are 24 such receptacles in the downtown area alone.
The Port of San Diego has started a unique project, as it will recycle a type of waste that is often left behind as litter - cigarette butts. This project aims to
The Port installed 31 cigarette butt receptacles that it purchased from TerraCycle around San Diego Bay, in Port parks and in other Port areas with heavy pedestrian traffic. The receptacles provide an easy option for smokers to dispose of their used cigarettes.
Port’s General Services Department staff will empty the receptacles and ship the used cigarette butts to TerraCycle. TerraCycle will then process the used butts, separating the tobacco from the paper. Those elements will be then composted and the cigarette’s filter will be recycled into plastic pellets.
The Port installed 31 cigarette butt receptacles that it purchased from TerraCycle around San Diego Bay, in Port parks and in other Port areas with heavy pedestrian traffic. The receptacles provide an easy option for smokers to dispose of their used cigarettes.
The Port of San Diego has embarked on a unique project to recycle a type of waste that is often left behind as litter – cigarette butts.
The Port is working with TerraCycle, a recycling company that has become a global leader in recycling items such as used cigarette butts, coffee capsules and ocean plastic.
The Port of San Diego has embarked on a unique project to recycle a type of waste that is often left behind as litter – cigarette butts. The Port is working with TerraCycle, an innovative recycling company that has become a global leader in recycling items such as used cigarette butts, coffee capsules and ocean plastic.
As an environmental champion of San Diego Bay and its surrounding tidelands, the Port of San Diego has embarked on a unique project to recycle a type of waste that is often left behind as litter – cigarette butts.
The Port is working with TerraCycle, an innovative recycling company that has become a global leader in recycling items such as used cigarette butts, coffee capsules and ocean plastic. This project will not only reduce the amount of discarded cigarette butts on Port tidelands, but it will help repurpose the waste into useful products.
SAN DIEGO (KGTV) - San Diego is hoping to stamp out a portion of city litter with newly installed cigarette butts receptacles along San Diego Bay.
The Port of San Diego installed 31 of the cigarette butt receptacles in partnership with TerraCycle, which developed the disposal stands.
Staff from the Port's General Services Department will be in charge of emptying the receptacles and shipping the used cigarette butts to TerraCycle, who in turn will process them to be used in recycled products.
Plastic Publix grocery bag. Styrofoam cup. Plastic Mountain Dew bottle. Lay’s Classic Potato Chips bag. Dole fruit cup. Menthol 305′s cigarette pack. Zephyrhills water bottle. Steel Reserve 211 beer can. Cardboard packaging. Drinking straws. Plastic cup lids. And cigarette butts — so many cigarette butts.
The City of Florence is cleaning up its streets. Officials are installing recycle receptacles around town, but the receptacles aren't for paper and plastic.
