Friday, February 1, 2013

Recycling Cigarette Butts


How can I tell the neighbours of close proximity to not leave cigarette butts and rum cans outside my door?
One suggestion: Get a couple of empty coffee cans, remove their labels, and mark the larger one "Recycling" and the smaller one "Butts". Set them out near where your neighbors sit and smoke. You could squash a soda can flat and put it in the larger can as a hint.



Sorry to say, it'll be your job to empty them out on trash day.
I'm sorry, I didn't realize I was doing that. I will make sure it won't happen again. My point? Ask just like you did on this website. Make sure you are polite, and they will more then likely be polite back. Best of luck!



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RECYCLING CIGARETTE BUTTS
Recycle 'em if you got 'em: TerraCycle launches cigarette waste ...
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.

Tobacco Company, Terracycle Team Up to Recycle Cigarette Butts ...
Cigarette butts are the most littered item in America and make up 38% of all trash on U.S. roadways, according to Keep America Beautiful. Annually, worldwide cigarette butt litter amounts to 1.69 billion pounds. TerraCycle Inc.

Recycling Mystery: Cigarettes - Earth911.com
TerraCycle hopes to collect and recycle hundreds of millions of cigarette butts through the Cigarette Waste Brigade, and the recycling process will make a significant impact when it comes to reducing waste. Creating pallets ...

Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Launches Butt Recycling Program
With funding from SFNTC, TerraCycle is launching a national program to collect and recycle cigarette waste. The Cigarette Waste Brigade will divert used cigarette butts from landfills. By sponsoring this program, SFNTC is not ...

Recycling Program For Cigarette Waste Launches : Convenience ...
(SFNTC), TerraCycle is launching a national program to collect and recycle cigarette waste. The Cigarette Waste Brigade will divert used cigarette butts from landfills. By sponsoring this program, SFNTC is not only taking ...

SFNTC and TerraCycle launch Cigarette butt recycling program ...
With cigarette butts being non-biodegradable and comprising 38% of street litter, this initiative looks to be a major reduction in MSW Environment Impact. Link:…

Group recycles 100K cigarette butts - FOX5 San Diego
SAN DIEGO - A San Diego based organization that started a cigarette butt redemption program last year is about to embark on another innovative idea. Ripple Life will be the first group to send in cigarette butts to be recycled ...

Reynolds subsidiary funding cigarette recycling - seattlepi.com
The company took nearly two years to develop the process to recycle cigarette butts, which are comprised of paper, tobacco, ash, and a filter made from cellulose acetate. The study also found that cigarette butts were the most ...

Urge Smokers to Recycle Their Cigarette Butts - ForceChange
An appalling 176 million pounds of cigarette butts are thrown out every year in the United States alone. If we begin to recycle cigarette butts, we can reuse that 176 million pounds of waste to create other materials. If something as simple as ...

Recycling Earths #1 Litter Source: Cigarette Butts | Your Olive ...
By Kim Urig. One of the most pervasive types of litter is cigarette butts. And contrary to popular belief, they are not biodegradable. Most cigarette filters are composed of cellulose acetate, a synthetic plastic-like substance used ...