Green Right Now: Cigarettes For Cash
By: Alex de Leon
Updated: June 13, 2012
Cigarette butts are being used to make steel stronger than ever and you can even make a little cash out of it, that's what's Green Right Now.
Terra Cycle, a manufacturing company in Canada is asking smokers everywhere to mail them their cigarette butts. They'll even pay for the shipping. For every pound you mail, you'll get a dollar.
Terra Cycle wants to take the chemicals in cigarettes and mix them with steel, which prevents them from rusting. Environmental advocates praise the company for their creative initiative, since cigarettes are not bio-degradable.
Terra Cycle, a manufacturing company in Canada is asking smokers everywhere to mail them their cigarette butts. They'll even pay for the shipping. For every pound you mail, you'll get a dollar.
Terra Cycle wants to take the chemicals in cigarettes and mix them with steel, which prevents them from rusting. Environmental advocates praise the company for their creative initiative, since cigarettes are not bio-degradable.
