| abstract |
An ecocompatible container for recycling cigarette butts is constituted by a cylinder including an openable upper cover ( 300 ), a base ( 200 ) and an intermediate portion ( 100 ) which houses a common hopper ( 110 ) in external communication with ashtrays ( 119 ) through which the cigarette butts are introduced, wherein via the hopper ( 110 ), the butts are introduced into a screening basket ( 130 ) with balls ( 131 ), in which the rotation of the screening basket ( 130 ) allows, by mutual impact and friction of the balls ( 131 ), crushing the cigarette butts and hence effectively separating the organic portion, i.e. the filter paper and the residual tobacco that fall by gravity through holes ( 139 ) into an underlying suitable collection container ( 150 ), from the resistant, fibrous portion constituted only by the filters of the cigarettes which, when sucked by a small suction motor ( 140 ), will fall into an underlying filter accumulation chamber ( 160 ). |