Smokers are used to getting grief from the rest of society. Having been bombarded with graphic warnings about your certain death by cancer, frowned and tutted at for blowing filth-clouds at civilians, and forced out into the cold and rain, the least you can expect is to get a nicotine fix in peace. So you light up, inhale, and then with a casual flick of your finger send the filter of your cigarette arcing off into the gutter. Because, well, everyone does that, don’t they? And cig butts – they just kind of, go away, somehow… Don’t they?
TerraCycle uses these disposable urns which they put in key locations downtown where people discard their cigarette butts.
Lansdowne Place is like a village without housing, with an infrastructure system to match. The mall is home to more than 100 retailers and fast food outlets, a department store and the city's biggest supermarket. Approximately 1,000 people clock in for work every day. It is also, and this might surprise those who equate shopping malls only with consumerism and rampant consumption, greener and more environmentally aware than most communities.
The Alliance for the Great Lakes and Chicago Park District are launching a pilot program intended to reduce cigarette butt littering on beaches using dual-purpose "voting boxes." The boxes serve as butt receptacles by acting as a ballot box in which smokers drop their "vote" into one of two compartments in support of or against something fun that involves rivalry. For instance, they will vote for one of two competing sports teams, or deep dish pizzas vs. Chicago-style hot dogs.
EASTON, Pa. - A trash issue that has been a real drag in Easton is now becoming a money-maker. A new cigarette butt recycling program is helping a group that cleans the streets. The trash will be used to make recycled material and a little money for the Greater Easton Development Partnership.
