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International Conference on

Recycling and Waste Management

October 03-04, 2019 | Melbourne, Australia

Journal of Environmental Waste Management and Recycling | Volume: 02

Waste cigarette filters- Negligence to effective use

Md. Moniruzzaman

Bangladesh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (BCSIR), Bangladesh

n estimated 5.6 trillion filtered cigarettes were

consumed worldwide in 2002 and nine trillion to be

projected by 2025. With global cigarette consumption

on the rise, the global environmental burden of cigarette

litter could be significantly intensified in the coming years

unless there is a change in the manner in which global

population dispose of these cigarette buds. Due to the

persistent nature and volume of cigarette buds discharged

into the environment, it is high time an alternative use of

this discharged waste to be found out. Utilization of waste

cigarette in removal of industrial dye from waste water

has already been reported. But the fate of these waste

cigarette filters adsorbed by dyes are yet to be discovered.

Desorption of these filters will not be the solution in this

case as it will ultimately be back to ground zero. Production

of paper from the filters might be a suitable solution as

cigarette filters are composed of cellulose acetates and

we all know paper is ultimately made from cellulose.

Employing alkali treatment followed by bleaching and acid

hydrolysis can be adopted for the extraction of cellulose

from cigarette filters. But removal of alkaloids and tar from

the fiber of cigarette filters will be a great challenge.

Speaker Biography

Md. Moniruzzaman has completed his

in Engineering in Chemical

Engineering & Polymer Science from Shahjalal University of Science &

Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh. He has joined Bangladesh Council of

Scientific & Industrial Research (BCSIR) as Scientific Officer in 2011.

Before that he worked as Graduate Trainee Engineer at Karnaphuli

Fertilizer Company (KAFCO), Bangladesh. He has been working on the

removal of dyes and heavy metals from waste water using indigenous

sources and published articles on various journals.