Cigarette butts refer to the small pieces of a cigarette left behind after someone has smoked it.
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Still, cigarettes have plenty of nicotine and even a
small cigarette butt can mean serious illness or even death for a small pet.
There is no hidden source, like a collection
of cigarette butts in his room, so the logical thing was to clean the current air conditioner and see if it still smelled.
Would you want to return it
with cigarette butts in the ashtray, dents in the bumper, and an empty gas tank?
I for one am already impressed people have been managing to make anything other than a pile of
cigarette butts in the carcass of a box of wine.
Urban house finches incorporate more fibres
from cigarette butts into their nests if they have live ticks in them, suggesting the toxic chemicals in the butts may deter the parasites
The council also formally added the dropping of
cigarette butts on sidewalks to its anti-littering ordinance, punishable by a $ 50 fine.
TORONTO — Progressive Waste Solutions Ltd. (TSX: BIN) has acquired a 19.9 per cent interest in TerraCycle Canada, a specialty recycler that collects items such
as cigarette butts, coffee capsules and drink pouches — sometimes as part of local fundraising campaigns.
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.
Should the police be looking through people's garbage
for cigarette butts too, if the family has kids?
Ashtrays, cigarettes, nicotine chewing gum or patches should be kept out of reach — even one
cigarette butt contains enough nicotine to poison a pet.
This is true especially when it comes to consuming things
like cigarette butts or empty cigarette packs.
The used
cigarette butts littering your city's sidewalks could serve as an energy storage material for anything from smartphones to wind turbines.
From the»40s on, American Abstract Expressionism dominated the Western art landscape and returned many artists» attention to the evocative formal qualities of paint on canvas and traditional sculptural materials — although the biggest figure associated with «Action Painting», Jackson Pollock, also stuck detritus
including cigarette butts, coins, buttons, and keys onto the surfaces of his paintings.
By
leaving cigarette butts on the beach, that adds to the pollution of the lake, and that's our greatest natural resource.»
Jesús «Bubu» Negrón creates sculptures and performances by inserting small gestures into the everyday landscape: for example, creating a carpet out of
cigarette butts collected by street sweepers, or mending a cracking bronze public sculpture with a plaster cast.
• Plastic bags are the second-most common type of ocean refuse,
after cigarette butts (2008) • Plastic bags remain toxic even after they break down.
He will forever remind me of the metal kids in high school who were really cool with me when we were one - on - one together, walking home or something, but who would flick their lit
cigarette butts at me when they were with their friends.
A vast expanse of sand — peppered with
extinguished cigarette butts — in an empty commercial space, serves as the receptacle for small change.
[Monserrat Suárez - Rodríguez, Isabel López - Rull and Constantino Macías Garcia, Incorporation of
cigarette butts into nests reduces nest ectoparasite load in urban birds: new ingredients for an old recipe?]
Statistically, the instance of fires in the homes of smokers is much higher than that of non-smokers, who don't bring with them the increased danger of smoldering ashtrays and still -
lit cigarette butts.
Health officials
say cigarette butts are also the most common waste found during environmental cleanups.
The town of Clifton Park in southern Saratoga County has taken steps to
keep cigarette butts and smoking out of public parks and trails.
Still relatively under - known, Reswob has developed a charismatic style of painting replete with
smoldering cigarette butts, anthropomorphized plant - and animal - life, and a mixture of enamel, acrylic, watercolor, and oil pastel.
Rain or even something as simple as hosing down a sidewalk can
wash cigarette butts, bits of Styrofoam, pesticides, and oil into the storm drains and out to the ocean.
Every year, billions of
cigarette butts end up in dumpsters and landfills, or get tossed as litter on shorelines, parks, and sidewalks across the US.
After a while, it's like walking
over cigarette butts on the streets of New York; smallish, purply dinosaur bones are everywhere.
They found that the adult finches were significantly more likely to add
cigarette butt fibres to the nest if it contained ticks.
Thousands of volunteers could not have swept the beaches of refuse, including plastic bags, broken toys, lawn furniture, blankets, beer cans, water bottles, cheap ice chests, purses, clothing, hats, flip - flops and
enough cigarette butts to turn the beach into the largest ashtray in the world.
If you see that your pet has eaten any Nicotine patches or an ashtray of
cigarette butts please call your veterinarian immediately!
Cigarettes: 9 - 30 mg of
nicotine Cigarette butts: 2 - 8 mg of nicotine Cigars: up to 40 mg of nicotine Chewing tobacco: 6 - 8 mg of nicotine per gram Nicotine gum: 2 - 4 mg of nicotine per piece Nicotine patches: 8.3 - 114 mg of nicotine E-cigarette cartridges: 6 - 36 mg of nicotine E - juice / E-fluid (to refill E-cigarettes): up to 36 mg of nicotine per ml
On Saturday mornings, when the weekly commuters who usually rush in like blood have emptied out like a stomach and left only
cigarette butts scattered like piñata droppings, I roam around thinking of the dead four hundred, passing the library and remembering it as a reservoir, not full of books but of water; I gather up anecdotes from when this neighborhood was something else.
Cons: I am a non smoker and to walk outside my room on the balcony walkway and
see cigarette butts all along the common walkway just turned me off.
Note that you saw a glass full of
cigarette butts ignored by hotel staff for hours on end, or that the air conditioner in your renovated room wasn?t installed properly, and you see murderous thoughts in his eyes.
In past years the company has organized beach cleanups, in which locals — wearing the salon's hair coloring gloves for safety —
retrieve cigarette butts and old Mylar balloons from the shores of Lake Michigan.
What's a
few cigarette butts in the parking lot when you're taking a stand as the community of Jesus on one of the great plagues of our time?
On the other corner: the massive Catholic church where, as a youngster, you could
harvest cigarette butts off their steps later in the after noon and smoke them behind the nunnery next door.
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The steady march to rid parks and playgrounds of
cigarette butts spread to Zion this summer after a group of students surveyed residents and then pushed the Park District to enact the ban that most supported.
The mess issue [with
cigarette butts] was part of the problem too,» Grisamore said.
Many state and local governments have banned smoking in parks and on beaches on the basis that passive smoke is a risk for non-smokers,
cigarette butts pollute the environment, and seeing people smoke poses a long - term risk to children.
«Secondhand smoke causes about 49,000 deaths per year in the U.S.,
while cigarette butts are the No. 1 littered item on U.S. roadways and the No. 1 item found during cleanup of beaches and waterways worldwide.»
And as taxpayers, we have to pay for a smoker's personal freedom — astronomical cancer rates, the filth of
cigarettes butts so carelessly tossed about, and fires caused by cigarettes.