Sentences with phrase «cigarette butts all»

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.

-- Ashtrays: If you think that roadsides seem increasingly littered with cigarette butts, there's a reason.

My initial reaction upon first seeing them many months ago was to pour scorn on Apple's designers for crafting a pair of expensive and easy - to - lose cigarette butts.

He also contends that the apartment was rented to others while he was not living in it, a claim apparently based entirely on the presence of cigarette butts on the patio.

As far as what was most challenging so far, I would have to say cigarette butts and recovered beach plastic that is now is being used in Procter & Gamble's Head & Shoulders and Fairy dish soap bottles.

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

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.

Should the police be looking through people's garbage for cigarette butts too, if the family has kids?

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.

Many municipalities work with TerraCycle to provide a public program for recycling cigarette butts and other difficult - to - recycle waste streams.

Between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., the group will accept difficult - to - recycle items ranging from electronics and cigarette butts to empty dog food bags and Brita filters — among many others.

The estimated 845,000 tons of cigarette butts that are tossed annually around the world are dangerous to marine life and negatively impact water quality.

Cigarette Butts Leach Chemicals and Start Fires There are so many bad things about these butts.

(image: bitpicture) Should Cigarette Butts Be Banned?

Chilean designer Alexandra Guerrero has been experimenting with what just may be the last thing anyone would think of as clothing material: cigarette butts.

Be careful with your cigarette butts.

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.

Used cigarette butts are the most frequently littered item, regularly discarded on sidewalks and out of car windows, making their way into waterways.

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

In Sydney, where TakePart reports that «beverage containers now outstrip cigarette butts as the most littered item,» the city officials placed Envirobank reverse vending machines throughout the city.

They also decorate their nest entrances with bottle caps, metal foil, cigarette butts, paper scraps, and other bits of trash — surely this is for some kind of curb appeal, though scientists say that it is probably to signify that the burrow is occupied.

TerraCycle partners with many municipalities around the world to bring zero waste solutions that range from city - wide programs for recycling cigarette butts to curbside programs to recycle hard - to - recycle materials.

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.

In a paper published in the American Chemical Society's bi-weekly journal Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, the scientists in China said they identified nine chemicals after immersing cigarette butts in water.

After discovering some really cool boots from plastic bags and a set of clothes with (yes) cigarette butts reuse from Chilean creators, now we stumbled upon these eight weird but somehow attractive products from reclaimed Puma trainers.

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.»

Forest firs are caused by droughts, carelessly discarded cigarette butts, and a buildup of organic fuel.

Here, adhesive sheets were scattered with the cigarette butts collected from his previous Like an intruder... exhibition and applied with drips of butterfly pea flower tea.

Curator Elizabeth Armstrong surveyed the vintage habitat of the forgotten Modernist scholar — his art and books; his high - tech - at - the - time Underwood Model 150 Typewriter, Polaroid Land Camera, and Graflex filmstrip projector; his clock radio and the other streamlined, mass - produced objects wearing their Deco heritage proudly; his ashtray overflowing with cigarette butts.

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.

Whether investigating the visual intrigue of seemingly inconsequential, discarded debris like bones, plumbing fittings and cigarette butts, animal skulls from the collection of the Narodni National Museum in Prague, or vessels from his personal collection, these images demonstrate Penn's extraordinary ability to create strikingly eloquent compositions from the most unsuspecting materials.

Newspapers and art books are stacked around Hockney, ashes and cigarette butts at his snoozing feet.

Influenced by Dada and Surrealism, Pop artists sought to distance themselves from the high - brow nature of Abstract Expressionism by using instantly recognizable recognized imagery (Hamburgers, Comic Strip Characters, Cigarette Butts, Cars, Baseball Glove), as well as modern printmaking technology like screen printing - all making a humorous dig at the consumerist American society.

Guston's paintings of hairy knees and cigarette butts are another kettle of fish....

It might have given local art lovers the impression that this former wild child who made Everyone I have Ever Slept With 1963 - 95 and My Bed, the 1998 display of detritus from her personal life — dirty sheets, underwear stained with menstrual blood, used condoms, cigarette butts and empty alcohol bottles — had lost her zing.

Another series of works, including Diamond Life, 1990, take the form of tableau sculptures that document further aspects of his life, depicting rooms he has occupied, complete with furniture, clothing, paperback novels, cigarette butts and record albums.

Penn's photographs defined elegance and style of the 1950s, yet he dared and succeeded to transform mundane objects into startling pieces of photographic art — storefront signs, food, cigarette butts, street debris — all of unexpected, and often surreal, beauty.

Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929) Leading Pop - Art sculptor, best known for his colossal sculptures of everyday objects, such as lipsticks, cigarette butts and hamburgers.

Hirst is also recognised for his mirrored pharmacy cabinets lined with shelves full of drug bottles, pills, sea shells or cigarette butts, and his paintings, both of which he produces in series.

The passage of time is shown through the cigarette butts, the empty bottles and the excrement present on the bedding.

She became that artist who made that bed — an installation also including stained pillows, cigarette butts, K - Y jelly, empty vodka bottles, used tampons, tissues, and her dirty knickers.

That particular genre is in many respects the polar opposite of uptight perfection, with its canvases rumpled and littered by everything from cigarette butts to charcoal to sand — all of which would be anathema to the clean lens and the pristine print — yet here Labatte slyly rearticulates the painterly gestures in an ecstatic series of photographic prints titled «Spotting,» 2014.

Paint tubes alongside peanut shells, cigarette butts and ashes indicate an easy familiarity with studio practice.

Another LA artist, Vasell creates collages from paint and the flotsam of contemporary life, including bottle caps, cardboard, and cigarette butts.

On the basement level, metallic cigarette butts and withered leaves linger on the floor next to an invented infrastructure made up of paper pipes and paper ventilation shafts.

For this piece, which squeezes two brown cigarette butts between four curvaceous layers of black marble, the artist for the first time gave himself over entirely to the medium, crafting the stone components himself.

Representing a period in the artist's life when she was severely depressed and could barely get out bed, its crumpled and stained bedsheets are surrounded by cigarette butts, dirty knickers and condoms.

For his May 2012 solo at Thomas Duncan in Los Angeles, Sean Kennedy fashioned a series of clear acrylic glass panes that hung from the gallery's ceiling and upon which were placed all manner of objects, from cigarette butts and cell phones to plastic cups and cleaning products.

Parking tickets and cigarette butts delicately imbricated into sober formal sculptures that play on the codes of minimalism thus appear to contaminate the entire sculpture and brand it with its status as a consumer item.

And all the critical rants to the contrary, this Biennial is not without its ephemeral gestures to private emotions, including Kiki Smith's shower of glass tear drops strewn before two transparent feet and lovingly titled Mother (1992 - 3); Jack Pierson's Diamond Life (1990), a sensitive hommage, with desk cigarette butts and Joni Mitchell albums, to the slower moments of an emotional life in the 70s; Lari Pittman's intricately patterned paintings; Lorna Simpson's wonderful wall of trumpet mouthpieces that form part of her installation Hypothetical?