"No Butts" Cigarette Waste Recycling Project
Decription of the No Butts Cigarrette Waste Recycling Project
Our goal with this project is to properly recycle all cigarette waste from our environment.
How The Project Works
- Encourage to stop people from smoking tobacco cigarettes.
- Educate as to the harmful effects of cigarette waste in our environment.
- Motivate people to take action to remove and recycle cigarette waste.
- Provide financial and other incentives to take action to remove and recycle cigarette waste from our environment
- Recycle cigarette waste into useful, non toxic products.
- Dispose cigarette waste will be properly recycled with minimum damage to environment
Paying to recycle
We are currently developing a program to pay people to remove cigarette waste from our streets and to actively recycle cigarette waste from their homes and offices. As we continue to develop this program we will post updates here at our website.
Information on the Hazards of Cigarette Waste
- Just one cigarette butt can contaminate over 40 liters of water with arsenic, acetone, ammonia, benzene, cadmium, formaldehyde, lead, toluene nicotine, heavy metals, benzene and other carcinogens.
- Cigarette filters are the most littered item in the world.
- An estimated 4.95 trillion butts are littered annually worldwide. Over 1.69 billion pounds.
- Animals and children often ingest cigarette butts, causing serious health issues and even death.
- Cigarette filters are highly toxic and composed of cellulose acetate, a form of non-biodegradable plastic.
- Studies have found that where Pocket Ashtrays were distributed, smoking related litter decreased by over 70%.
- Filters traveling through storm drains and water systems end up streams, rivers, and waterways.