What’s the most common piece of litter in St. John’s? Cigarette butts. And one nonprofit organization wants to put that statistic out.

Karen Hickman is with Clean St. John’s, they’re starting a pilot project to not only remove cigarette butts from the city, but recycle them.

The project will place 25 recycle bins in the downtown near bars and restaurants and collect them once per week.

She says they’ll ship them off to TerraCycle who then composts the remaining tobacco and turns the filters into plastic lumber.

Hickman says if you’re looking to recycle your remaining cigarette while downtown, just look for the bins claiming “Your butt would look good in this.”