in Brest, a company recycles cigarette butts into street furniture

Urban furniture, benches or ashtrays, created from cigarette butts, here is the initiative of Megothe only company in France that treats this waste. Since 2017, this factory has recycled more than 50 tonnes of cigarettes collected in France. The tobacco is recovered to make compost, while the highly toxic cigarette butts are cleaned up with rainwater. The cigarette butt fiber is then compressed at high temperature to become a plate, used for street furniture, as in Landerneau (Finistère). In this city, ashtrays have been installed to collect as many cigarette butts as possible.

On the 13 Hours set, Thursday April 28, journalist Valérie Hurtel presents another raw material that can be recycled: the box. A Nantes company uses it to build houses. “Thanks to these cells, they are also very insulating for noise and heat”explains the journalist. Cardboard can also be transformed into furniture.