Use cigarette butts to make T-shirts

A group of Japanese students created a way to transform cigarette butts into cloth to make T-shirts.

The idea came from Shinji Sawai, a 21-year-old economics student at Ritsumeikan University in Japan. Sawai came up with the idea when he noticed that there was a lot of cigarette smoke at the local station every day.

Sawai then assembled a group of students at various schools called AOI to collect ash remedies from ashtrays at local stores and gas stations. After working with a professor at the Kyoto Institute of Technology to apply the technology to reduce toxins , the amount of cigarette smoke was woven into fabric before the T-shirt.

Some companies in the Osaka and Wakayama regions have received spinning and weaving into fabrics, with about 30% of them being woven directly from cigarette butts. The project has achieved unexpected results when the fabric is able to absorb water well, very airy, the surface is only slightly convex core and has many different thicknesses.

Telegraph said the initiative was introduced at the Kyoto National Cultural Festival with students demonstrating t-shirt fashion from cigarette butts. Last year, Chinese scientists also revealed methods of using chemicals from cigarette filters to protect steel pipes from corrosion.