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This Company Is Turning Discarded Cigarette Butts Into Plastic

Cigarette butts are probably the grossest thing that you just see all over the place, and it probably should not surprise you to learn that they are also a very problematic pollutant. Citylab has an interesting profile one one company, TerraCycle, which … Continue Reading

Curbed.com · Mar 24, 2016

Turning Cigarette Butts Into Something Useful

Increasingly, researchers are realizing that cigarettes are as much an environmental problem as they are a health issue. Walk along a beach or around a busy city and you step on a lot of cigarette butts, thrown carelessly to the … Continue Reading

The Atlantic’s CityLab blog · Mar 23, 2016

Chicago Invests in ‘voting boxes’ to Combat Cigarette Butt Littering on Beaches

The Alliance for the Great Lakes and Chicago Park District are launching a pilot program intended to reduce cigarette butt littering on beaches using dual-purpose “voting boxes.” The boxes serve as butt receptacles by acting as a ballot box in which smokers drop their “vote” into … Continue Reading

Waste Dive · Mar 23, 2016