Planet TrotterFoundation

Innovation initiative

Buttto board.

Discarded cigarette butts, collected street by street across four cities, and remade into something that rides waves. A reminder that small actions shape the environment.

The initiative

Litter, rethought.

Initiated by Nikhil Pratap Singh, Butt to Board collects discarded cigarette butts from the streets during travels across Dehradun, Lucknow, Bangalore and Goa. The aim is awareness: cigarette butts are non-biodegradable and highly toxic, and this widespread litter damages the ecosystems it ends up in.

By creatively repurposing the collected butts, the project urges responsible disposal, a reminder of how seemingly small actions can significantly impact our environment.

DehradunLucknowBangaloreGoa

No scientific claims are made about the resulting material; the board is an awareness and innovation piece, documented as built.

Collecting cigarette butts from the street
Field collection under Project Dawn
A bag of collected cigarette butts
The handmade surfboard built from butts and thermacol

From street to surf.

DOCUMENTED
01
The problem
Cigarette butts are non-biodegradable and highly toxic: one of the most widespread and overlooked forms of litter, damaging the ecosystems they land in.
02
Field collection
Discarded butts collected from the streets during travel across Dehradun, Lucknow, Bangalore and Goa.
03
Experimentation
Testing how the collected waste could be cleaned, bound and shaped rather than dumped.
04
Creative reuse
A handmade surfboard, built from the collected cigarette butts and thermacol: waste turned into a board that rides waves.

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