Sentences with phrase «cigarette butts into»

[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?]

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

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This Trenton company runs recycling programs for major corporations, turning seemingly unrecyclable goods — Brita filters, cigarette butts, Sharpie pens — into finished products or salable plastics.

«Now you can't walk into an Asian restraint in the Tri-State area without seeing one of these tubs as a cigarette butt collector,» Emanuele says.

It has unrepaired divots, brown scars, slick spots, damp spots, replaced cups, leaves, pebbles, worms, lumps of sand, cigarette butts, invisible grain and — clearly visible — the name of a high school skillfully burned into it by vandals.

The nicotine - containing cigarette butts can be ingested by children, are eaten by wildlife and can leach into the water, according to the Alliance for the Great Lakes, which conducts annual beach cleanups that sift out thousands of discarded cigarette butts every year.

The nicotine - containing cigarette butts can be ingested by children, are eaten by wildlife and can leach into the water, according to the Alliance for the Great Lakes, which does beach cleanups that sift out thousands of discarded cigarette butts every year.

When a constituent came into Assemblyman Michael G. DenDekker's office recently and suggested he propose a cigarette butt recycling program, Mr. DenDekker admits he «had a little chuckle.»

The map had come with the flat, and though it was big and wrinkled, and cigarette butts had once stubbed black islands into the mid-Atlantic, he'd kept it, a reminder of the world outside.

Walk them and you'll notice: any scraps of food (or discarded chewing gum, cigarette butts, etc.) go straight from the sidewalk into their mouths.

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.

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.

Housed at Kuta Beach and operated under the authority of Bendesa Adat Kuta, the new Massey Ferguson tractor will soon be prowling Kuta's beaches from Tuban up to Seminyak, its special beach cleaning unit picking things like cigarette butts, bottle caps, bits of plastic and other trash from the sand and then dumping it all into the trucks that will be taken to the trash dump.

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.

But he managed to imbue a well - worn practice with a fresh, if knowing, sense of poetry — as in the image here, where cigarette butts mashed into a sidewalk grate recall the city and its vast multitudes.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.