Category: Cigarette
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Tobacco companies market “biodegradable” filters from new materials
https://www.thequint.com/climate-change/cigarette-filters-dont-protect-smokers-health-only-cause-plastic-pollution-is-it-time-to-ban-them
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Single use vapes ban opportunity to tackle youth vaping (FREE)
Read Single use vapes ban opportunity to tackle youth vaping
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Greenbutts and Filtrona partner on biodegradable cigarette filters
Greenbutts and Filtrona announce joint development agreement to produce biodegradable filters
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Companies that Recycle Cigarette Butts
These companies recycle used cigarette butts into plastics, envelopes, toy stuffing, jacket insulation material and other useful products.
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Soon, candy wrappers, cigarette packaging to be biodegradable in India
Soon, we will see candy wrappers to cigarette packaging which can be fully biodegradable, leaving no plastic and toxins behind.
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Canadian Patent for Biodegradable Filter
Greenbutts received a Canadian patent for biodegradable filter tow technology.
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Indian Tobacco Industry Goes Bioplastics
Tobacco Institute of India Clarifies that its Members have moved from Regular Plastic Wrapping to Biodegradable Wrapping on its Cigarette Packs
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NL Motion to Ban Plastic in Cigarette Filters
Following motion was introduced in the NL parliament
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TerraCycle Cigarette Butt GreenWashing Program
Another great greenwashing solution by TerraCycle
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TerraCycle and Rothmans Benson & Hedges Partner on Recycling
Unsmoke Canada and international recycling leader, TerraCycle are launching a multi-year, community-based recycling partnership to collect and recycle the world’s most littered item: cigarette butts
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Cigarette Butts and Not Plastic Straws Are Largest Human Caused Pollutant
The plastic straw has been at the forefront of conversations about damaging man-made waste but cigarette butts have turned out to be an even bigger problem. An estimated 4.5 trillion butts are littered globally each year, The BBC reports, and their effects are incredibly harmful.
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New Cigarette Filters Block up to 60% of Harmful Substances Thanks to Bio-on Biopolymers
Bio-on has patented a new material following research conducted over the last 2 years by CNS laboratories in Italy and Clarkson University in New York state.
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Cape Town Start-Up Launches World’s First Biodegradable Cigarette
It turns out the world’s obsession with plastic is far from over. Yes, we’re aware of the global plastic straw crusade going on at the moment – which in itself seems a tad overdue – but cigarette filters? SURELY they converted the world’s biggest form of litter to something biodegradable ages ago? Nope, they didn’t.…
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