TerraCycle has joined forces with EZ Products CLS for “The Butt Stops Here” initiative. Through the initiative, golf carts at Rolling Hills, a Tempe-owned golf course in Arizona, have been outfitted with cup ash trays, and
collected cigarette waste will be recycled into new products through TerraCycle.
“Everything we pick up today will be counted and weighed,” said group spokesperson Laura Wood.
“We sort the items into recyclable and non-recyclable. If it’s recyclable, it gets recycled here. All the cigarette butts are then shipped to TerraCycle.”
La compañía estadounidense TerraCycle ha logrado perfeccionar un proceso donde pueden convertir las colillas de cigarro en diferentes artefactos que pueden ser utilizados por grandes y pequeños, los cuales pueden ser desde un juegos infantil, objetos de plástico, hasta bancas de parque.
“Everything we pick up today will be counted and weighed,” said group spokesperson Laura Wood.
“We sort the items into recyclable and non-recyclable. If it’s recyclable, it gets recycled here. All the cigarette butts are then shipped to TerraCycle.”
“Everything we pick up today will be counted and weighed,” said group spokesperson Laura Wood.
“We sort the items into recyclable and non-recyclable. If it’s recyclable, it gets recycled here. All the cigarette butts are then shipped to TerraCycle.”
The United States-based company, which has a facility in Fergus, offers free recycling programs that are funded by brands, manufacturers and retailers to help divert hard-to-recycle waste from landfill.
Two weeks later on April 27th, Green Venture joined the City of Hamilton’s Clean and Green Committee and A Greener Future’s initiative called the Hamilton Butt Blitz with an intended goal of collecting 50,000 butts in one day. The Kenilworth Butt Blitz, one of 5 organized cigarette butt clean ups around the City, saw Green Venture joining forces with the Crown Point Garden Club and almost 20 volunteers to participate in Hamilton’s first ever city-wide Butt Blitz! This team of dedicated volunteers collected 9,252 cigarette butts from Kenilworth Avenue stretching from Barton to Main to be recycled by TerraCycle. This was a huge accomplishment. Thank you volunteers!
After the event ends, the Navarre Beach Sea Turtle Conservation Center staff sorts the trash, consolidating recyclable items, delivering aluminum cans for cash and mailing cigarettes to TerraCycle, a recycling company for the “non-recyclables,” based in New Jersey, Stephens said.
Moving forward, Gibi says they’re partnering with
Terracycle to recycle those cigarette filters.
he NC Aquarium on Roanoke Island recently collected and recycled 10,900 cigarette butts (weighing 8.7 pounds) from locations such as designated non-smoking areas on the Aquarium site, beaches and roadsides. And for the record, recycling company TerraCycle is the organization that actually counted the number of cigarette butts. The Ocean Conservancy says cigarette butts are the top item collected globally during coastal cleanups.
The campaign sends much of the collected waste to TerraCycle, a company that is able to
recycle the butts, turning the plastic into industrial-grade products like plastic pallets. Vancouver, where people litter a million cigarette butts a day, was the
first city to pioneer this partnership with TerraCycle, installing 110 cigarette butt recycling bins in its downtown area in 2013.
