Trente milliards sont jetés dans la nature chaque année et chacun d'entre eux met environ 12 ans à se désagréger. Y a-t-il une solution? La réponse de Julien Tremblin, responsable du service à la clientèle et des communications à Terracycle France, à Londres.
With help from collectors across Canada, TerraCycle gathered more than 5 million cigarette butts in the first year of its Cigarette Waste Brigade program. The program, which started in Canada but is now expanding across the globe, recycles and creates eco-friendly primary products from cigarette waste.
A year ago across Canada, New Jersey-based TerraCycle Inc. started recycling used cigarette butts into plastic pellets for packaging. It now collects close to a million butts a week.In other cases, medium-size Quebec cities have taken the lead in accepting some things in recycling bins that others yet don’t. In Victoriaville, for example, you can put Styrofoam in the bin, something Montreal doesn’t yet allow (the material is considered too expensive to process).
