Hey volunteers! This is a quick note to thank you for all of the cigarette butts you’ve collected during our beach cleanups and habitat restoration events and turned in. We just mailed another 3000+ to TerraCycle.

Since Helen started collecting them in 2013/2014 we’ve recycled 323,712 filters to date keeping them from the landfill! Isn’t this astonishing?

So Far By the numbers:

Keep’em coming and keep up the good work!

Whenever you are on a walk, or at the beach or even gardening in your front yard, you can pick up the cigarette butts and place them in a bag and then in bucket with a lid. We have been successful at keeping the smell enclosed that way. Here are more information on how you can recycle the butts you find outside of PBC events: How to Recycle Cigarette Butts with TerraCycle.