Sentences with phrase «cigarette butts littering»

The used cigarette butts littering your city's sidewalks could serve as an energy storage material for anything from smartphones to wind turbines.

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On the other corner: a massive Catholic church the congregation of which would litter their steps with cigarette butts after service, which me and a buddy would collect to smoke in a vacant lot nearby and once set it on fire lighting up.

It was littered with beer bottle caps, cigarette butts and other rubbish that had gathered over the year of it playing unfortunate host to a share - house of 20 - something boys who liked to have parties frequently but responsibly dispose of their litter less often.

Race trash — beer cans, cigarette butts, water bottles, energy drinks, stray ear plugs, bits of confetti — litters the pits and the stands.

The next time you're tempted to just toss that empty drink bottle out of the car window or leave a cigarette butt lying around, keep these astounding littering statistics in mind.

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.

His work became littered with cigarette butts and tin cans, all rendered in style that played a considerable role in the development of Neo-expressionism: «There is something ridiculous and miserly in the myth we inherit from abstract art.»

It was at this point that Philip Guston returned to his roots as a figurative artist and started to produce work littered with cigarette butts, tin cans, and cartoon Klansmen, rendered in a style that was key to the development of cartoon realism and Neo-expressionism.

Cigarette butts and litter here are traces of human behaviour, suggesting the invisible presence of a virtual population or crowd.

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.

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.»

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.

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

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