“Let's not relax our efforts and continue to do a good thing for the planet,” asked the Town Hall of Saint-Gratien (Val-d'Oise) to its residents regarding a very specific type of pollution. Since last April, the town has in fact decided to invest in a new system to combat the increase in cigarette butts thrown into the street by smokers, says La Gazette Val-d'Oise this Sunday.
20 kg in five weeks
For this, the City called on the start-up TchaoMegot, which designed container ashtrays specially designed to collect cigarettes. The Town Hall installed a total of 15: two models attached to the wall with a capacity of two liters and 13 bins with a volume of 12 liters each in which 20kg of cigarette butts were thrown away during the first five weeks.
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By collecting cigarette leftovers in this way, Saint-Gratien avoids objects being left on its sidewalks which “take more than ten years to decompose naturally and pollute our environment”, explained the Town Hall. But that's not all since the cigarette butts are then recycled without using water or dangerous substances and become insulating materials.
