Students give second life to disposable cigarettes and help Ukrainian army

Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute students have launched an eco-initiative. They collect used disposable electronic cigarettes to turn them into an element of the drone discharge system for the Ukrainian army.

Initially, they installed cigarette boxes near dormitories but later expanded the initiative.

Now the Rozetka store chain accepts used electronic cigarettes. They take cigarettes in all chain stores in Kyiv.

The inventors already boasted of the first results. They collected a total of 400+ electronics, four power units, and a pair of batteries of various types. Students handed the first batch over to the engineer and promised to show the finished drones soon. Helping the army and saving the environment by reusing disposable electronics is twice as pleasant. 

Earlier, there were reports of volunteers turning disposable cigarettes into powerful power banks for the Ukrainian Armed Forces. 

Volunteer Serhii Kontseus said to Suspilne that his team began to actively help the Ukrainian military from the beginning of the war. Volunteers from Zaporizhzhia created power banks and took them to the front line. Over time, they received applications from the military for power banks. In Ukraine, they were sold out quickly, so together with fellow engineers, volunteers decided to make them themselves.

Earlier, Rubryka reported that WHO had revealed new information on how tobacco damages both the environment and human health, calling for steps to make the industry more accountable for the destruction it was causing.

The WHO report, Tobacco: Poisoning our planet, highlights that the industry's carbon footprint from production, processing, and transporting tobacco is equivalent to one-fifth of the CO2 produced by the commercial airline industry each year, further contributing to global warming.