Turning Cigarette Butts Into Teddy Bears

Brut India

Ever wondered what happens to the cigarette butts you casually throw away? Naman Gupta decided to use this toxic waste to make something surprising...

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00:00Till date, we have recycled more than 300 million cigarette buds.

00:17We found that there is no specific guidelines or a specific system to recycle the cigarette

00:29buds, soft toys, cushions, mattresses and various other products.

00:59It is separated manually using thread cutters or scissors.

01:14After separation of these three parts, the paper, polymer and the tobacco, paper that

01:20is received by us is first converted into a pulp form.

01:26And after creating pulp, we add an organic binder to it.

01:37Polymer that we receive is first shredded by a shredding machine.

01:41After shredding, it goes through a 24-hour biodegradable chemical recycling process.

01:57The leftover tobacco that we receive is used in making organic compost, which is fit to

02:04use in nurseries.

02:18From the beginning until date, we have been facing a lot of setbacks and criticism, but

02:24because we dared to provide an end-to-end solution to the problem of cigarette buds.

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