{"id":20590,"date":"2023-08-23T04:12:13","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T11:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/?page_id=20590"},"modified":"2026-04-20T01:55:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T08:55:35","slug":"cigarette-recycling","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/sustainbc\/waste\/waste-diversion\/cigarette-recycling\/","title":{"rendered":"Cigarette Recycling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"791\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2020\/05\/cigarette-recycling-01-791x1024.jpg\" alt=\"cigarette recycling signage\" class=\"wp-image-16868 size-full img-fluid \" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2020\/05\/cigarette-recycling-01-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2020\/05\/cigarette-recycling-01-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2020\/05\/cigarette-recycling-01-768x994.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2020\/05\/cigarette-recycling-01-1187x1536.jpg 1187w, https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2020\/05\/cigarette-recycling-01-1583x2048.jpg 1583w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 791px) 100vw, 791px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>Our Cigarette Recycling Programdiverts cigarettes and associated materials from the landfill and instead gives them a second life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How it works<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bellevue College\u2019s grounds crew collects the cigarettes and ash from within the eight designated smoke huts around campus. The collected material is then sent to Terra-Cycle, a company that recycles and transforms what would be waste into useful items such as pallets ad park benches. Who knew cigarettes could be anything but litter!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Accepted Items<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Extinguished Cigarettes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cigarette Ash<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cigarette Filters<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tobacco Packages<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Foil Packaging<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rolling Paper<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>See the smoke hut signage&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2020\/05\/cigarette-recycling-01.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200e<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2101,"featured_media":20600,"parent":16842,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-20590","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20590"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20597,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20590\/revisions\/20597"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}