Japanese students salvage cigarette bumps into fashionable T-shirts

A small set of Japanese students has introduced a system of reprocess cigarette butts into modern T-shirts.

The strange recycling project engages the students bring together old cigarette butts from outside, such as local shops, parlours and gas stations. And, after make use of a technique developed by scientists to reduce destructive toxins, the clothes are then rush into a fabric before being used to make T-shirts, popular newspaper reported.

In detail, the sketch was the brainchild of Shinji Sawai, 21, a learner at College of Economics of Ritsumeikan University, who was aggravated by the quantity of butts he saw every day at his local station while transformed.

Sawai consequently created a group called AOI with other university students dedicated to recycling the cigarette butts attained from overflowing ashtrays in local channels.

The technology necessary to eradicate toxins from the butts came about as a result of group effort with a professor at the Kyoto Institute of Technology.