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.

Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore has installed 15 recycling receptacles to encourage smokers to properly dispose of their used cigarettes in Harbor East as part of its Healthy Harbor Initiative. Cigarette litter collected will be sent to TerraCycle for recycling, eliminating cigarette litter from Baltimore’s streets, waterways and landfills. “Every year, millions of cigarette butts are tossed on the ground in Baltimore. When it rains they get washed into our storm drains, which flow directly into our streams and Harbor,” said Adam Lindquist, director of Waterfront Partnership’s Healthy Harbor Initiative.