The city has installed 110 cigarette butt disposal canisters to help keep cigarette waste from entering the streets and waterways. Keep New Hanover Beautiful has joined forces with the city of Wilmington, N.C., to tackle cigarette butt waste. To help keep cigarette butts off the streets and out of the waterways, the city has installed 110 cigarette butt disposal canisters. Once the containers are full, volunteers from Keep Hanover Beautiful will mail them to N.Y.-based TerraCycle, which will melt the materials down into hard plastic that can be used to make products like plastic pallets and building materials.