Good News Notes: “Recycling efforts increased in the last decade, but so has the use of single-serve plastics. The Tobacco Product Waste Reduction Act, introduced by Democratic state lawmakers on Thursday, prohibits selling cigarettes with single-use filters as another kind of plastic pollutant. ‘Cigarette butts are everywhere—littering our streets, our parks, and our waterways, and…
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Shore town joins forces with recycling company to repurpose cigarette butts
Good News Notes: “A Jersey Shore community is undertaking an innovation solution to a problem that has long plagued beaches: cigarette butts.” “Cape May County’s North Wildwood is partnering with TerraCycle, the world’s leader in the collection and repurposing of complex waste streams, to recycle the cigarette butts, which the company says it the world’s…