In searching for a recycling company that can handle cigarette butts, Brightman found New Jersey-based Terracycle, which offered what he described as an innovative mission to eliminate waste. Terracycle partners with leading consumer companies, retailers, and cities to recycle products and packages, from dirty diapers to cigarette butts, that would otherwise end up in landfills
Germain said Friday that the cigarette butts will be collected every seven days from the receptacles and sent to TerraCycle, a Trenton, New Jersey-based recycling company that will use them to make new products like benches and tables. "It's the first municipal cigarette recycling program on Long Island," Germain said as she stood next to a receptacle recently installed at a Port Washington bus stop.
At the same time, I learned consumers are twice as likely to recycle in the kitchen as opposed to the bathroom. Knowing this, our idea was to put an heirloom seed packet inside the bottle to encourage consumers to interact with the product, break open the bottle to get the seeds and consciously think about what to do with each component; the paper and plastic go in their respective recycling bins and the pump can be sent to TerraCycle free of charge.
Germain said Friday that the cigarette butts will be collected every seven days from the receptacles and sent to TerraCycle, a Trenton, New Jersey-based company that will use them to make new products like benches and tables.
- TerraCycle: Trenton, N.J.-based company collects discarded cigarette butts and turns them into plastic shipping pallets, park benches, picnic tables and other products. terracycle.com
Cigarette butts collected from cleanups are packaged and shipped to TerraCycle, a company that collects hard-to-recycle waste materials and recycles them into new items like park benches.
Companies like TerraCycle provide
Zero Waste Boxes for people to take matters into their own hands and recycle e-cigarettes at their home or office. TerraCycle collects discarded e-cigarettes using purchasable waste boxes, ranging from $47 for an individual pouch to $1,640 for a much larger pallet, typically used by several people over time. The user, or users then ship the disposed e-cigarettes to the company, and the collected waste is mechanically or manually separated into metals and plastics and later melted to be recycled. While some people might be discouraged from buying their own waste box for financial reasons, the company is working with a variety of brand partners to make their recycling solutions available for free to everyone.
Companies like TerraCycle provide
Zero Waste Boxes for people to take matters into their own hands and recycle e-cigarettes at their home or office. TerraCycle collects discarded e-cigarettes using purchasable waste boxes, ranging from $47 for an individual pouch to $1,640 for a much larger pallet, typically used by several people over time. The user, or users then ship the disposed e-cigarettes to the company, and the collected waste is mechanically or manually separated into metals and plastics and later melted to be recycled. While some people might be discouraged from buying their own waste box for financial reasons, the company is working with a variety of brand partners to make their recycling solutions available for free to everyone.
Terracycle, a New Jersey-based company, will then separate the ash, tobacco and rolling paper and turn all of it into industrial fertilizer. The cigarette filters will help create plastic shipping palettes and outdoor furniture. What’s more, 60,000 butts make a park bench and 165,000 a picnic table, Gusoff reported.
TerraCycle, an East Coast firm that specializes in recycling items typically seen as "non-recyclable," (such as used oral-hygiene products), has partnered with CVS pharmacies, Starlight Children's Foundation and Colgate-Palmolive in the nationwide recycling effort.
