Cigarette Receptacles Installed in NYC’s Park Slope Turn Used Butts into Usable Products
TerraCycle Include USA cigarette recycling
In Park Slope, Brooklyn, the Fifth Avenue Business Improvement District has moved forward with an initiative to install special cigarette receptacles along Fifth Avenue. The bins will collect cigarette and cigar butts, rolling paper, loose tobacco pouches, filters, inner and outer package foiling and ash (cardboard cigarette boxes are not accepted).
The waste from the receptacles is collected by TerraCycle, a New Jersey-based company that specializes in recycling items that wouldn’t ordinarily be considered recyclable. The company works with different municipalities around the country and world to install receptacles in order to diversify waste streams.