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Problem:AUBURN (CBS13) — She’s called The Butt Lady of Auburn and she’s proud of it. 
  
 Sally Dawley takes to the streets every day with a mission to clean up cigarette butts left behind. 
  
 “I got tired of seeing cigarette butts everywhere,” she said. 
  
 She’s known to many around town as The Butt Lady Of Auburn, something she says she brags about. She spends a few hours every day sweeping up after smokers. 
  
 “They are inconsiderate and uncaring,” she said. 
  
 She checks every crack and crevice, all while keeping count on her clicker. She sets out every day, armed with a broom, dustpan, and a bright T-shirt with an important message. 
  
 Her hard work hasn’t gone unnoticed by nearby business owners. 
  
 “I admire that a great deal; one person making up the difference for everyone,” said Rick Trandem. 
  
 Since she started just seven months ago, she’s collected and counted more than 100,000 cigarette butts. Every two weeks she reports her numbers to the City Council. 
  
 While her mission and message is to keep Auburn beautiful, the city says she is also providing a public safety service. 
  
 “What doesn’t get picked up goes into our storm drain system, and that’s a concern to us,” said Bernie Schroeder. “So we like the fact that she takes the effort to do what she does.” 
  
 Sally says her efforts have become more than a hobby. She’s actually picked up a habit. 
  
 “I’ve left my house without my stuff and I’m seeing butts everywhere, and i say ‘OK I can’t take it,’ so I go back home and I get my equipment,” she said. 
  
 She hopes more will be inspired to get behind her community project. ||||| Learn how cigarette butts are collected and recycled into useful products. 
  
  
  
 Cigarette butts are, by some counts, the world’s number one litter problem. 
  
 Butts represent the most numerous form of trash that volunteers collect from the world's beaches on the Ocean Conservancy’s cleanup days. More than two million cigarette parts were recently collected in a single year around the world—double the amount of both food containers and beverage containers. 
  
 The hard numbers from some other sources are staggering. 
  
 New York state, for instance, produces an estimated 1.5 million tons of cigarette butts a year. And butts account for about 13 percent of the litter accumulated on Texas highways, 130 million butts a year. 
  
 The problem extends well beyond the gross factor. Cigarette filters are made from wood-based plastic fibers that take generations to fully decompose, says Tom Szaky, CEO and founder of the New Jersey-based recycling company TerraCycle. 
  
 And the filters can leach nicotine and tar into the ground or water. 
  
 Butts are also often eaten by birds, fish, and other animals, who can choke on them or be hurt from the poisons they contain. 
  
 Most commonly found pieces of trash in the oceans Volunteers collected and tallied ocean litter on one day during Ocean Conservancy's International Coastal Cleanup in selected spots around the world. NG STAFFSOURCE: OCEAN TRASH INDEX, OCEAN CONSERVANCY 
  
 As seen in the video above, TerraCycle is one of a handful of companies that is working to collect and recycle spent butts, by turning them into plastic lumber that can be used for benches, pallets, and other uses. 
  
 Another company, EcoTech Displays, is working on a system to recycle butts into insulation, clothing, and even jewelry. 
  
 Governments have also increasingly taken note of the problem, by beginning to enforce littering laws against those who toss their butts or imposing extra taxes on cigarettes to help defray the cost of cleanup, from Maine to San Francisco. ||||| Smoke is part of the ambience at Connecticut's casinos because some people like to have a few cigarettes while they gamble. 
  
 How many cigarettes? 
  
 At least 716,000 in the past six months at Foxwoods Resort Casino. That works out to an average of nearly 4,000 cigarettes, or 198 packs, smoked daily at the casino. 
  
 The number could be even greater than that, but 716,000 is the estimated number of cigarette filters, or butts, that Foxwoods bagged up from its casino ashtrays and mailed to a specialty recycling business in New Jersey. Foxwoods started the recycling program in November. 
  
 Instead of ending up in a landfill, the butts are made into plastic pellets that can be made into pallets or plastic "lumber" for industrial purposes. The remaining tobacco flakes and paper are composted. 
  
 Yes, cigarette filters are plastic. Cellulose acetate to be specific, said Albe Zakes, a spokesman for TerraCycle of Trenton, N.J. 
  
 "It's a plastic that's meant to look and feel more like a fiber, which is why people tend to think, and why there's a big misconception that, cigarette butts were biodegradable, which, in fact, they are not," Zakes said. 
  
 The company has been recycling butts since 2012 in Canada and the U.S. 
  
 TerraCycle has a Cigarette Waste Brigade, open to any organization or individual older than 21. The brigade accepts cigarette butts, ash, loose tobacco and carton packaging of cigarettes. All people have to do, and all Foxwoods does, is put the extinguished cigarettes into a bag, print a free UPS label from TerraCycle's website, and mail them to a TerraCycle facility. 
  
 "Any interested party can sign up for free on our website. We provide prepaid UPS shipping slips, and we do small donation incentives for what people collect," Zakes said. 
  
 The company also recycles drink pouches, like those made for Capri Sun, yogurt cups, pens, glue bottles and tape dispensers. In those programs, schools and churches participate. Once the company started recycling cigarettes, it considered logical places where people smoke. Casinos were an obvious choice. 
  
 "We've really targeted casinos, stadiums, concert venues and those type of large-scale places where people are smoking en masse," Zakes said. 
  
 Once these venues take part in the program and mail bags of cigarette butts to TerraCycle, the bags arrive at one of five recycling facilities throughout the U.S. The Foxwoods butts end up in Cranbury, N.J., where someone has the dirty task of opening bags of butts and putting them into a recycling machine that shreds the material and then separates plastic from the decomposable parts: paper and tobacco. 
  
 The machines also separate other materials, such as chewed up gum tossed in the ashtray. 
  
 "It's not the best-smelling part of our factory," Zakes said. 
  
 The paper and tobacco are composted and the plastic is melted into plastic pipettes that are cut into pellets, which can be resold. These plastics aren't used for consumer products, like baby bottles or cups. The plastic is used for industrial purposes only, such as shipping pallets or skids, Zakes said. 
  
 "The plastic has been tested extensively, and there are no toxins and no carcinogens left in the plastic after the process," he said. "All of that is burnt off throughout the process. … But we do not use it for any consumer application." 
  
 The incentive for businesses that give material to TerraCycle is the environmentally friendly practice, and potentially a small savings on waste management fees. TerraCycle gets revenue from selling the plastic on the market. The company also receives money from sponsors of its programs, such as Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Co., the maker of American Spirit cigarettes, which markets to socially responsible people who might appreciate the environmentally conscientious approach, Zakes said. 
  
 For every pound of butts, roughly 1,000 filters, TerraCycle donates $1 to Keep America Beautiful for its anti-litter campaigns, Zakes said. 
  
 For every pound of cigarette waste Foxwoods sends to TerraCycle, $1 is donated to the United Way of Southeastern Connecticut. 
  
 Chris O'Connell, vice president of Development and Resort Services at Foxwoods, said in a statement: "We take great pride in developing a 'green' business and reducing our footprint in the environment. Thanks to our partnership with TerraCycle, we are able to implement safe environmental practices that improve our business and create a healthier environment for our guests and valued team members." |||||
Solution:
Cigarette butts aren't just nasty, they're turning up all over the place and damaging the environment, National Geographic reports. Every year, New York state alone is said to create 1.5 million tons of butts, while 2.1 million of them were found in the world's oceans in a single day. So what's the big deal? The filters' plastic fibers take decades to decompose, while tar and nicotine can creep into the water or soil and animals can be poisoned or choke on them. On the bright side, companies like TerraCycle in New Jersey are recycling butts into plastic goods, the Hartford Courant reports. And CBS Sacramento reports that Sally Dawley—known as "The Butt Lady of Auburn" (Auburn, Calif., that is)—devotes her time to collecting butts: "I got tired of seeing cigarette butts everywhere," she says. "[Smokers who toss them] are inconsiderate and uncaring." (Meanwhile, go ahead and keep smoking—there's a 67% chance it'll kill you.)