Tired of discarded cigarette butts littering St. Louis streets and sidewalks, several organizations have partnered to install 62 recycling bins scattered across the city.

Dive Brief: Downtown STL Inc., along with TerraCycle and Progressive Waste Solutions, announced the installation of 62 cigarette butt-collection receptacles in St. Louis. The butts can be recycled to make plastics, and the tobacco can be composted.

TerraCycle is on one important mission to make the impossible possible. The organization is finding ways to recycle and upcycle things that typically aren’t considered recyclable or possible to upcycle. What they hope to do is eliminate the idea of waste.

TerraCycle is on one important mission to make the impossible possible. The organization is finding ways to recycle and upcycle things that typically aren’t considered recyclable or possible to upcycle. What they hope to do is eliminate the idea of waste.

Even though his organization is called Friends Against Butts, make no mistake, Rowdy Keelor wants your butts. Cigarette butts, that is.

Over the next eight weeks, Hampton, James City County, Newport News, Norfolk, Portsmouth, Suffolk and Virginia Beach will use educational materials, cigarette butt receptacles and other methods to try to cut down on the number of discarded cigarette butts and plastic cigar tips. The effort includes a $12,500 grant from Keep America Beautiful.

Since I became Publisher in 2006, you’ve come to know the Williamson Herald as a wholesome family newspaper. The kind of publication you can sit down to with your family, including your children, for worthwhile community news that provokes meaningful discussion together that won’t offend.

Franklin’s 100,000 butt challenge is on! The innovative recycling program for cigarette butts and other smoking-related litter kicks off June 1 in Franklin and project organizers want 20 local businesses to hand them their butts.

We are discovering how many organizations are creating innovative ways to recycle some of those pesky pieces of litter that have become such a nuisance on our highways, sidewalks and landfills. When we saw what Foxwoods Resort Casino began doing with their collection of cigarette butts, we had to spread the word.

Cigarette butts aren't just nasty, they're turning up all over the place and damaging the environment, National Geographic reports. Every year, New York state alone is said to create 1.5 million tons of butts, while 2.1 million of them were found in the world's oceans in a single day.