Amazing Photos of How Cigarette Stubs Are Turn Into Soft Toys, Other Products
- Beautiful photos from the factory where cigarette stubs are turned into soft toys have surfaced online
- According to the report, the stubs are picked in city streets in New Delhi, India and reprocessed and reproduced into many products such as toys, pillows
- Naman Gupta, the brain behind the manufacturing, said millions of cigarette stubs are being recycled annually
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New Delhi, India - Smiles envelop women feeling brightly coloured toy bears with white stuffing produced from material mostly found in the rubbish bin.
According to Aljazeera, the toys are made from cigarette stubs.
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The stubs are picked from streets in the city where they had been discarded by smokers. They are separated into fibres, cleaned and bleached.
How to recycle cigarette stubs?
They are being reprocessed into several products, which include toys and pillows. The brain behind this is Naman Gupta in New Delhi, India.
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“We started with 10g [0.35 ounces of fibre per day] and now we are doing 1,000kg [2,205 pounds],”
He added:
“Annually we are able to recycle millions of cigarette stubs.”
The report says his workers separate out the outer layer of the stubs and tobacco before turning them into recycled paper and compost powder.
What is the rate of cleanliness in India?
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), nearly 267 million people, about 30% population of India's adults, take tobacco and litter the streets with stubs.
However, it is reported that general cleanliness standards are abysmally low.
All pictures below are gotten from Aljazeera.
Queen Elizabeth II’s list of properties King Charles inherited revealed as she is laid to rest
Legit.ng earlier reported that world leaders have gathered in the United Kingdom to bid farewell to Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey on Monday, September 19.
The Queen reigned for 7 decades before she passed away on Thursday, September 8, at the age of 96, becoming the longest-reigning monarch in the history of the British.
However, the late Queen left some mouth-opening properties for her successor, King Charles III, to inherit, some of which included Queen Victoria's wedding gown.
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