New Delhi, Nov 13 (PTI) On the outskirts of the national capital, a group of people patiently separate piles of cigarette butts into paper, brown fibre and tobacco powder. And over a period of time, each separated item is churned into products ranging from soft toys to diaries.
Focused on sustainability, startup Code Effort is recycling cigarette butts into different products for more than four years now and is even exploring the possibility of making air purifiers with recycled butts.
“We pay Rs 200 to 400 per kilogram of cigarette butts that we procure from various entities. We have more than 200 collection centres in different parts of the country,” the startup’s founder and Director Naman Gupta told PTI.
