You know it, I know it, we know it, a cigarette butt pollutes. But it is interesting to understand why? Around 137,000 cigarette butts are thrown around the world every second. Over a year in France, nearly 30 billion cigarette butts are thrown on the ground, polluting up to 15,000 billion liters of water, the … Read more
At a time when ecological problems are at the center of political, economic and social issues, seeing a smoker throw his cigarette butts on the road hardly shocks anyone, yet there are indeed consequences on our environment. Around the world, one in three cigarettes ends up in the wild and more than 500 million kilograms … Read more
ÉcoMégot is a French company, resulting from the social and solidarity economy, which offers an innovative, complete, local and tailor-made solution for raising awareness, creating zero butt spaces, collecting and recycling cigarette butts in all of France (Lyon, Paris, Marseille, Toulouse, Bastia, Saint-Cloud, Monaco, Bordeaux, Pau ...).
Our mission is to promote behavioral changes among citizens, employees and festival-goers with regard to cigarette butt pollution. We believe that the recycling of cigarette ends should serve the common awareness and thus create a virtuous circle carrying meaning.
