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Municipalities Look to Reduce Toxic Waste by Recycling Cigarette Butts

TerraCycle Cigarette Waste Brigade Include USA Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Salem New Orleans Portland
The city, along with its Downtown Development District and New Jersey-based recycler TerraCycle, installed 50 new cigarette-recycling receptacles on several downtown blocks. TerraCycle, which uses difficult-to-recycle products in its process, has a nationwide program, along with New Orleans and other cities, that recycles cigarette butts into plastic pellets later used to make products, such as industrial pallets.