Waterfront Partnership installing more receptacles for cigarette butts in Harbor East
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The Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore will be installing three more containers on Wednesday to keep smokers near the Marriott Waterfront from tossing their butts into the water.
The installation of the receptacles will take place at 1 p.m. along the west side of the waterfront outside the Marriott in Harbor East.
The Partnership said in a release that it already installed 13 more of the containers around Harbor East last week. The nonprofit launched its cigarette recycling program earlier this year, installing 15 of the containers in Harbor East that have collected 55,000 cigarette butts, according to a release.
All collected cigarette waste is sent to the international recycling firm TerraCycle, which processes the material into organic and plastic-based products. The filters are later used to create industrial plastic products, the Waterfront Partnership said in a release.
Last week, the nonprofit and the Harbor East Marina installed oyster cages on the promenade there to help filter water in the harbor. The Waterfront Partnership is making such efforts as part of its Healthy Harbor Initiative, which aims to make the Baltimore Harbor safe for swimming and fishing by 2020.