Why we should pave roads with cigarette butts
TerraCycle Include Australia
Melbourne, recently heralded as the world's most livable city in the world for the seventh year in the row, is home to a successful butt-recycling scheme in which over 350 cigarette waste disposal points — or "Enviropoles" — have been installed around town. The Enviropoles are regularly emptied and their contents shipped off to the United States where Trenton, New Jersey-based TerraCycle recycles the plastic-containing cigarette filters into a variety of consumer products like outdoor plastic furniture and shipping pallets.