Turning discarded cigarette butts into something that can be reused in the future.
That’s the idea behind a partnership between the Stratford City Centre BIA and the City of Stratford that features new cigarette receptacles being installed around the cities downtown core that are attached to light poles.
The receptacles will be emptied by city workers, shipped to a company called TerraCycle where it will be sterilized and separated with the tobacco and paper composted, and the filters turned into plastic pellets that will be used in a variety of industrial applications such as plastic shipping pallets.
Kim Griffiths with the BIA says they want to see the downtown core get cleaned up.
“There are regular complaints coming into the city for many summers I think actually about the cigarette butts that land on the ground.”
Terracycle launched the world’s first recycling program for cigarette butts out of Canada in 2012 and this pilot project is being watched by other communities.
