Coimbatore-based NGO makes pillows, stuffed toys with recycled cigarette butts
The HinduCoimbatore-based Dr. Kalam Foundation on Monday launched ‘Green Buds’, an initiative to recycle cigarette butts and make products such as pillows, toys and mattresses using the filter which is made of cellulose acetate. According to Kishore Chandran, founder and managing trustee of Dr. Kalam Foundation, 1,000 collection bins will be placed in all the 100 wards of the Coimbatore Corporation, mostly at shops selling cigarettes and so-called ‘smoking corners’, to collect cigarette butts. Mr. Chandran said people who worked at the recycling facility used safety gears while handling cigarette butts. The NGO aimed at providing pillows and mattresses to government hospitals and primary health centres with the support of corporate social responsibility funds, when it started getting cigarette butts in large quantities, he added.
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