Sentences with phrase «found cigarette butts»

Eftihis Patsourakis, Portrait, found cigarette butts, 2005.

Not exact matches

If I told you that a massive rock concert had been held in your backyard last night, and you went out there and couldn't even find a beer bottle or cigarette butt on the gorunds, you'd know I wasn't telling the truth.

On the day of the operation, I found her mother sitting under the fluorescent lights in the waiting room beside an ashtray full of cigarette butts.

DNA extracted from cigarette butts and bubble gum found on the streets of Brooklyn is being used by artist Heather Dewey - Hagborg to create realistic portraits of anonymous New Yorkers.

They found that the adult finches were significantly more likely to add cigarette butt fibres to the nest if it contained ticks.

He comes home to find himself ankle - deep in water, in which various objects (a sandal, a cigarette butt, a dead cockroach) float with poetic languor.

Next a framing scene shows the adult Kathy (Carey Mulligan) exchanging an uneasy smile with Tommy (Andrew Garfield) as he's prepped for surgery, and in a flashback to a school assembly the brittle headmistress (Charlotte Rampling) announces that cigarette butts have been found on the grounds and reminds the students of their special responsibility to maintain their health.

I have exactly two minutes to find all of the faults: the twisted seat belt, the seat heater accidentally set on max, the ill - matching adjustment angle of the rear seat backs, the greasy fingerprints on one air vent, the empty water bottle in the drinks cabinet, the cigarette butt in the ashtray, the out - of - alignment passenger sun visor, the dirty floormat, the half - open rear window curtain, and the distant buzzing noise from the improperly muted radio.

Smokers are major contributors to the littering problem in the U.S. Tobacco waste, including cigarette butts, accounts for 38 % of all litter found along roadways and at transition points, such as outside buildings where smoking isn't allowed.

Nicotine poisoning is a real concern anywhere that a pet may find cigarettes, cigarette butts, chewing tobacco, or even nicotine gum, patches, or e-cigarettes.

The artist began his meticulous study by picking each weed from the city streets — obscure bits of nature found amidst commercial waste (discarded candy wrappers, cigarette butts and soda cans).

In Pollock's famous painting we find bits of the «real world» embedded into the surface, objects such as nails, thumbtacks, cigarette butts, coins, buttons, and a key.

A 2006 City of Toronto litter audit [PDF] found that cigarette butts were the fourth most common small litter item, after chewing gum, paper, and glass pieces.»

HONG KONG — Chemical extracts from cigarette butts â $» so toxic they kill fish â $» can be used to protect steel pipes from rusting, a study in China has found.

It turns out more people are frightened of finding discarded bottles and cigarette butts than they

They've found that the cellulose acetate that makes up most of the material in a cigarette butt can easily be changed into a carbon - based material that out - performs common materials used in energy storage devices.

A group of South Korean researchers have found a way to not only divert some of those used cigarette butts from ending up in the environment, but also a way to make them into something useful.

Artist Heather Dewey - Hagborg has collected DNA samples from cigarette butts and chewing - gums found on the floor to create realistic portraits of their former owners.

The company has found ways to recycle more than 100 forms of waste, from cigarette butts to dirty diapers.