Oklahoma City Reduces Cigarette Waste with Cigarette Recycling Stations

In August 2016, the Oklahoma City Office of Sustainability, OKC Beautiful and Downtown OKC, Inc. teamed up to install 23 aluminum, fire-resistant cigarette recycling stations in Downtown Oklahoma. And since then, more than 15,000 cigarette butts have been collected. The collected cigarettes are sent to N.J.-based TerraCycle, which composts the ash and tobacco and turns the remaining waste into hard plastic that can be remolded into industrial products.