For their efforts, they will receive a two-cent per cup refund and a $60 prize from the contest sponsor, New Jersey-based Terracycle Inc.

As part of my research on the brand, I discovered that Larabar wrappers are now recyclable through TerraCycle and that several of the flavors are certified GMO-free.

New Jersey-based global recycling company TerraCycle installed 110 receptacles bearing stickers reading “Recycle Your Butts Here” for the pilot project, which is expected to last four to five months, according to Canada’s Metro News. The butts will be collected and shipped to TerraCycle to be processed into industrial plastics.

Leadership opportunities are available in many classrooms, he said, of various designations, including table helper, floor helper or TerraCycle student leaders who help collect recycling bins. "Always remember to follow the leader in you."

Having previously introduced tobacco waste recycling to Canadian and American consumers via twin Cigarette Brigade programs, TerraCycle, the New Jersey-headquartered “waste solution development” firm dedicated to dealing with “worthless and unsavory” recyclables is now helping to bring cigarette butt recycling to a city-wide level in a new partnership with the beautiful city of Vancouver, British Columbia.  

In October, TerraCycle, an upcycling and recycling company in New Jersey, announced a partnership with Seattle-based Sur La Table to collect Nespresso and Illy capsules in all locations around the nation and send them to New Jersey.

We are already headed there for grocery shopping so it is not out of the way.  Well, what if you could get your items recycled into products that can be used?  That is what TerraCycle does.

A shelter volunteer turned the humane society on to TerraCycle, which works with more than 100 major brands in the U.S. and 22 other countries to take the packaging from many common, but difficult-to-recycle products and turn it into affordable, innovative products items such as lunch boxes, office supplies, fertilizer, clothing, jewelry and more (view products on dwellsmart.com)

From glue sticks to flip-flops, TerraCycle has embraced hard-to-recycle waste with open arms. And with this new collection scheme, the company is taking on the country's most pervasive type of litter: Cigarette butts.  

Check out Terracycle and join a Brigade.