Corporate social responsibility or csr represents the commitment of companies to the process of sustainable development . Around several pillars, companies must understand the issues and constraints that lie behind this broad concept.
ÉcoMégot has developed a range of several ashtrays to combat the throwing of cigarette butts in public spaces. To complete our cigarette butt management solution , we provide our customers with pocket, portable and airtight ashtrays .
In 2024, the new edition of the Olympic Games will be held in Paris . This is one of the major events of the next few years. Several issues and challenges will arise in designing eco-responsible Olympic Games that will leave the smallest possible ecological footprint.
At ÉcoMégot, the recovery and recycling of cigarette butts are an integral part of our overall solution . We believe that recycling without raising awareness is irrelevant. Since 2016, we have been collecting cigarette butts from communities, businesses, schools and events. All these butts must be recovered and recycled.
At ÉcoMégot, we are aware that it is important to combine smoking areas with the preservation of the environment by curbing as much as possible the throwing of cigarette butts on the ground or in nature. With furniture suitable for any type of structure or location, finding the right outdoor ashtrays shouldn’t be difficult!
European Week for Waste Reduction Every year the European Week for Waste Reduction is organized. In 202, this edition of the EWWR is held from 20 to 28 November 2021. There are nearly 4000 animations and actions organized throughout France. Set up by the ADEME, this initiative aims to encourage actions of awareness, collection or … Read more
In 2016, the EcoMégot project was born in Bordeaux to take up a challenge: to make the cigarette butt, this urban micro-waste, a vector of jobs for the populations which are the most distant from it. Since its beginnings, the project has therefore insisted on being part of a social raison d’être , in other … Read more
This month of November 2021 marks the 14th edition of the Month of the Social and Solidarity Economy (ESS). The ESS represents a set of structures with a common ambition: to place people at the heart of the economy , taking into account current social challenges. This branch of the economy seeks to reconcile economic … Read more
Since June 2020, ÉcoMégot has filed a European patent on its new cigarette butts recycling process. Centralized in our premises near Bordeaux, the EcoMégot recycling workshop was born! What is our cigarette butts recycling process? In view of the contents of chemical components , in particular nicotine, cigarette butts are assigned the hazard classes HP6 … Read more
Contrary to popular belief, the cigarette butt represents the highest pollution in the oceans. It is nonetheless as dangerous or even more dangerous than the others. Once consumed, the cigarette butt is the most common waste in nature. You should know that no less than 137,000 cigarette butts are thrown into the ocean every second … 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.
