Long Island Town Cracks Down on Cigarette Butt Pollution, Installs Half-Dozen Receptacles for Recycling- CBS New York

Terracycle, a New Jersey-based company, will then separate the ash, tobacco and rolling paper and turn all of it into industrial fertilizer. The cigarette filters will help create plastic shipping palettes and outdoor furniture. What’s more, 60,000 butts make a park bench and 165,000 a picnic table, Gusoff reported.