A vice finds virtue: Biz group’s program recycles cigarettes strewn on Slope streets

Park Slopers are putting your butts to work — to save the planet! Honchos of the nabe’s Fifth Avenue Business Improvement District installed special receptacles along the thoroughfare where puffing passersby can toss used cigarettes, which are then sent to a company that recycles the otherwise forgotten filth into functional goods, according to a street cleaner that works with the organization.