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Cigarette butt recycling for corporate offices

Headquarters, office buildings, campuses, coworking: an office smoker produces roughly 10 to 15 cigarette butts per day. For a 200-employee site with 20% smokers, that is more than 100,000 cigarette butts per year. Here is how Easy to Change handles this flow without burdening your teams or harming the look of the site.

  • Discreet, aesthetic hardware suited to building entrances
  • Monthly or quarterly collection depending on footfall
  • Quarterly waste transfer note for your CSRD, Ecovadis, ISO 14001 reporting
  • Employee awareness with Peasy, without finger-pointing
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A few headquarters we work with

TotalEnergies
Vinci Facilities
Enedis
Legrand
Decathlon
FM Logistic
Leroy Merlin
Mondial Relay
They trust us

A few references in this sector

A selection of headquarters, mid-caps and large groups that trust us with their office sites.

  • DECATHLON
  • FM Logistic
  • MONDIAL RELAY
  • BPCE LEASE
  • MERITIS
  • BlaBlaCar
  • Urbyn
  • Legrand
  • ENEDIS
  • CBRE
  • HIPTOWN
  • DB SCHENKER France
  • Paris Habitat
  • Constellium
  • Icam Lille
The specific stakes

Three issues that shape the office service

01

Image and building surroundings

For office sites, the building entrance is the first point of contact with clients, candidates, journalists and auditors. A pavement scattered with cigarette butts sends a signal that contradicts any CSR policy displayed elsewhere. The installed hardware must be discreet, aesthetic, integrated with the architecture — not an orange industrial ashtray. Our Easy Premium range is designed for exactly this context: galvanised steel, oven-cured epoxy finish, 4 standard colours + RAL chart on demand.

02

CSR reporting and audits

Office CSR and legal departments are among the most exposed to CSRD, ESRS E5, Ecovadis, ISO 14001, B Corp obligations. Cigarette butt management is a visible indicator, easily checked during an on-site audit. Our quarterly waste transfer note, generated automatically through Trackdéchets, feeds directly into your sustainability reporting and provides documentary proof of your material-recycling stream.

03

Neighbours and shared buildings

In office buildings, you are almost never alone: mixed-use co-ownership, multi-tenant offices, residential neighbours. Complaints linked to cigarette butts on the surroundings are recurrent and damage relations. Our ashtrays mounted at the entrance channel the flow and reduce overflow onto public space. The Peasy awareness programme reinforces the habit without finger-pointing — which matters in buildings where smokers are already going outside out of obligation.

Typical configurations

Three examples of set-ups deployed in offices

Small headquarters (50 to 150 employees, single site) — 2 to 4 Easy Premium ashtrays at the main entrance and on the internal terrace where applicable. Quarterly collection. Light Peasy display (1 to 2 posters). Automatic quarterly waste transfer note. Annual budget typically lower than the cost of cleaning expenses absorbed in-house.

Mid-cap or large group headquarters (200 to 1,500 employees) — 4 to 10 Easy Premium ashtrays distributed across entrances, forecourts, outdoor terraces and equipped smoking shelters. Monthly collection. Full awareness campaign with Peasy posters, on-site launch animation, CSR follow-up integrated into group reporting. Quarterly waste transfer note + annual figures report (cigarette butt tonnage, CO₂ equivalent avoided, butts diverted from the ground).

Multi-site (branch network, several locations) — Phased roll-out, group framework contract, sliding-scale terms, consolidated or per-site billing depending on your procurement process. A single point of contact on the Easy to Change side to manage everything. This is typically the configuration we operate for TotalEnergies, Vinci Facilities, Enedis or Legrand.

The operational network

Why our value chain is particularly suited to offices

For offices, cost isn't the only criterion: value-chain consistency matters just as much. Your Ecovadis and CSRD auditors will check that waste is actually recycled (and not exported or landfilled), that partners are identified and solid, and that everything is documented.

Our value chain rests on two reference industrial partners: MéGO (the first French plant for material recycling of cigarette butts, based in Brittany) for recovery, and clikeco (national logistics operator with hazardous-waste approval) for collection. In high-density office zones (Île-de-France, regional metropolitan areas), we also bring in social-economy partners — Lemon Tri across 5 regions, Ostreya in Île-de-France and PACA, the Elise network across nearly 50 French sites — which brings office clients the double benefit of responsible procurement (employment of disabled or socially supported workers) on top of the environmental impact.

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