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Melbourne City Council butts in to recycle cigarette waste

A City of Melbourne initiative is putting cigarette butts in the CBD to good use, recycling them into industrial products like shipping pallets and park benches. More than 10,000 cigarette butts are littered in the CBD daily. As well as … read more

The City Journal · Aug 2, 2017

City of Melbourne urging smokers to “butt out” with care

On Monday, City of Melbourne placed a perspex box filled with 200,000 cigarette butts in Queensbridge Square on the south bank of the Yarra River. The display aims to promote the City of Melbourne’s long-term cigarette butt recycling scheme and … read more

The City Journal · Aug 2, 2017

Cigarette butts recycled into plastic products

The City of Melbourne has become one of only two councils in Australia to run a citywide initiative to recycle millions of cigarette butts into industrial products, according to Lord Mayor Robert Doyle. The City of Melbourne has partnered with Enviropoles, who … read more

Waste Management Review · Aug 2, 2017