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Welcome to the website of Igloo Environmental. We are a young organisation yet we are probably the only organisation that is seeking to deal with very old and dirty problems. We are dynamic, revolutionary and most importantly possess a can-do attitude and are not frightened to tackle and solve very difficult environmental problems. Our ultimate task is to rid our streets of ugly toxic cigarette butts and recycle them into useful loft insulation after the removal of all the toxins.
Our mission (formalised and invoked into our constitution) is to recycle waste streams and remove toxins that are otherwise placed to landfill. Moreover we are the very first organisation that is dedicated to the solving of the blight and eyesore of the world wide smoker bad-habit of cigarette butt littering.
Our Primary Objectives are:
to live in the first country that has eradicated cigarette butt littering. To prevent the pollution of cigarette butts entering into the eco system. To recycle cigarette butts into useful loft insulation products. To recycle other waste streams including bashed up and destroyed to destruction bank notes, old NHS blankets, worn out carpets, waste paper and other fibres. Most importantly to prevent biodegradable waste being landfilled and biodegrading to CO2e (inter alia, methane).
Methane (CH4) is also an official greenhouse gas. Due to its chemical nature scientists classify it as being 23 times more potent as a greenhouse gas compared to CO2
Each year the UK places approximately 5million tonnes of paper to landfill. Without any counter measures this paper mountain shall emit roughly 210 million tonnes of CO2e into the atmosphere.
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Cigarette rubbish is the worlds largest and worst litter problem. In the UK alone 60bn cigarettes are smoked each year. This means that 30,000 tonnes of cigarette butts are disgarded. Disposal of those collected is to either landfill or energy plant. In landfill leacheate poisons and contaminates the soil and combustion causes large quantities of CO2.
For each and every supermarket bag in the UK there exists no fewer than 5.5 cigartte butts. Each year the world smokes roughly 5.6 trillion cigarettes that generate almost 2million tonnes of waste. According to the World Health Organisation smoking worldwide is due to double within the next 10 years.
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