Giving cigarette butts a second life through
innovation.
Filaret is a green-tech company
collecting and upcycling
cigarette butt waste
into new materials.
We turn butts into new bioplastics, 3D printing filament, hand-crafted paper and more.
ABOUT
Mission
To make sustainable, upcycled waste materials a global norm in the 3D printing industry.
Filaret organizes the collection of cigarette butt waste by renting and selling our branded cigarette bins (check here) as well as collecting cigarette butts from partners and individuals who want to contribute to our upcyling process.
Once collected, we separate the filter part from cigarette butts, detoxify and wash it, mix in additives and other nature friendly polymers (shh, our secret ingredients!), melt it all together to produce compostable plastic granules. These are then turned into 3D printing material aka filament (a string of plastic used for creating 3 dimentional objects via 3D printing).
Want to know more? Read our blog post about it HERE!
Process
