Abstract: An ecocompatible container for recycling cigarette butts is constituted by a cylinder including an openable upper cover, a base and an intermediate portion which houses a common hopper in external communication with ashtrays through which the cigarette butts are introduced, wherein via the hopper, the butts are introduced into a screening basket with balls, in which the rotation of the screening basket allows, by mutual impact and friction of the balls, 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 into an underlying suitable collection container, from the resistant, fibrous portion constituted only by the filters of the cigarettes which, when sucked by a small suction motor, will fall into an underlying filter accumulation chamber.

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).