Recycle your butts! Although it is not common, there are a few places, like the City of Vancouver, and organizations, like TerraCycle, that will actually recycle your filters for you. Check to see if there are any programs in your area.

 

OCEAN CITY — A $2,000 grant is expected to further the resort’s efforts to install cigarette disposal containers to the west of the Boardwalk. Smith added that the businesses, as well as the town, would be able to package the cigarette butts and send them to TerraCycle, which will pay the shipping costs.

Heading into the holidays with a sustainable mindset, Evelyn Fielding-Lopez, Sarah Lozanova, and Mitch Ratcliffe get ready for guests. The gang talk about how to eliminate toxins when choosing home cleaning products, how to make your own Earth-friendly cleaning recipes, and recycling of household product such as toothbrushes, toothpaste tubes, and cleaning product packaging. We also look to the skies to talk about the orbiting mess humans have created on the planet’s front porch. Hear the five weirdest, and very practical, Terracycle recycling programs and how to use them.

The cigarette butts collected from each bin are shipped to a company called TerraCycle, a New Jersey based recycling business. The cigarette butts are then cleaned and the cellulose acetate in the filter is recycled and used to make everything from plastic park benches to weather-proofing pipes and jewelry.

A Coquitlam business group is tackling the problem of cigarette litter with an innovative program that not only recycles the pesky filters but also provides extra income to a local non-profit agency. This summer and fall, the Austin Heights Business Improvement Association took on the challenge of collecting cigarette butts in partnership with TerraCycle and the Community Ventures Society.

Yes, yes … grow up. The Long Beach Environmental Alliance is inviting everyone from do-gooders to students looking for service hours to those particularly drawn to bending, to come help clean up a bit of the city, specifically those parts inundated with cigarette butts.

For nearly nine months, Main Street has partnered with TerraCycle, a company that converts otherwise non-recyclable waste into reusable raw material. TerraCycle separates the cigarettes and packaging and melts them into hard plastic. This plastic can then be used to make recycled industrial products.

A new C-TRAN program will prevent thousands of discarded cigarette butts from going into landfills. Instead, they’ll be recycled. In late August, C-TRAN began gathering all cigarette butts collected at Vine station receptacles and sending them to TerraCycle, a global, New Jersey-based recycling company that specializes in hard-to-recycle waste. Once received, the cigarette butts are separated by composition and melted into hard plastic. That material can then be used to make new recycled industrial products, including plastic pallets, according to TerraCycle. Any remaining tobacco and ash is recycled as compost.