Designed a new cigarette box for people who smoke to help reduce environmental waste

EDUCATION:

MY ROLE:

Product Designer/ Researcher

WORKING WITH:

Lecturers

SECTOR:

Waste / Sustainability

DATE:

Mar ‘11

How might we stop the mass littering of a hazardous material right at the source educating in the process?

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122 tonnes of cigarette litter is dropped every day in the U.K. which is equivalent to 30.5 Elephants in mass or 28% of the Eiffel Tower.

I created this concept packaging on hearing that cigarette waste is the biggest form of litter in the U.K. The second being chewing gum.

In other countries, like Japan, most smokers carry an external pouch with them, to put their cigarette butts into.

Realising that the UK has different cultural habits, I designed a new box which allows the user to dispose of their cigarette end in a safe and easy way, right in the box