Cigarette filters are made of cellulose acetate — a plastic polymer that leaches nicotine, tar, and heavy metals into soil and water. India has zero scalable recycling solution for this waste stream despite generating billions of butts annually.
A four-stage chemical process that detoxifies cigarette filters and recovers cellulose acetate — the polymer hidden inside every butt — then regenerates it into usable, saleable materials.
India is the second-largest tobacco market in the world. Rising ESG mandates, corporate sustainability pressure, and a completely untapped circular economy gap create ideal first-mover conditions.
Recycled cigarette filters transformed into products people actually want — from hybrid yarn for the textile industry to premium eco stationery and corporate gifting.
From idea to funded prototype — with national media coverage, academic validation, and a working lab-scale process already delivering real products.
We turn the very substance that causes tobacco-related cancers into products that fund the fight against them. Pollution into production. Harm into healing.
We have the science, the validation, and the team. Now we need capital to scale the process and capture the market opportunity ahead of any competition entering this space.
Join us in building India's first cigarette butt recycling company. Science-backed, scalable, and genuinely impact-driven.
Whether investor, CSR partner, or distributor — we'd love to connect.
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