Sentences with phrase «cigarette filters»

Do birds use cigarette butts in their nests because the toxins left in cigarette filters deter parasites?

The documents show oil companies tested toxicity in cigarettes in the 1950s, and some, including Exxon and Shell, patented cigarette filters worldwide for decades.

South Korean chemical engineers successfully converted used cigarette filters into a type of porous carbon ideal for conducting electricity.

This look requires a simple black dress, pearl necklace, any catty shades, long lady gloves and a long lady cigarette filter.

2010 foil, bottle caps, silk, canvas, acrylic, cigarette filter paper, tube sock and yarn on pleather - backed fabric 45 x 30 inches

Cigarette filters pose a serious litter and toxic waste disposal problem; it is estimated that 1.69 billion pounds of butts wind up as litter worldwide per year — one researcher found that just one cigarette butt can contaminate a liter of water so severely that fish die in it.

Simpson Thacher and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer are advising on the sale of Solvay's cigarette filter business Acetow to private equity group Blackstone, for around $ 1bn (# 854m).

Most fragments of plastics, measuring about one - sixth the diameter of the human hair, come from paints, nylon, and polyester — some of the common materials found in cigarette filters.

Poisons leach from the 4 trillion cigarette filters that we chuck each year, harming health and environment alike.

The trash encompasses just about anything imaginable made of plastic including shopping bags, bottles, toys, food wrappers, fishing gear, cigarette filters, sunglasses, buckets and toilet seats.

Moreover, cigarette filters are linked to higher risk of adenocarcinoma.

Cigarette filters are made of non-biodegradable polymer acetate (read: plastic), and discarded butts start fires, kill small animals, and are the most common item washing up on beaches.

Program accepted waste: Extinguished cigarettes, cigarette filters, loose tobacco pouches, outer plastic packaging, inner foil packaging, rolling paper, and ash.

Overall, Peeken and the research team found 17 types of plastic in the Arctic, including stuff used to make packaging material, cigarette filters, paint, and fishing nets.

The plastic (such as the cigarette filters) will undergo pelletization and extrusion to be molded into various recycled plastic products.

Cigarette filters, all parts of extinguished cigarettes, cigar stubs, outer plastic packaging, inner foil packaging, rolling paper, and ash.

«Our study has shown that used - cigarette filters can be transformed into a high - performing carbon - based material using a simple one step process, which simultaneously offers a green solution to meeting the energy demands of society.

«Numerous countries are developing strict regulations to avoid the trillions of toxic and non-biodegradable used - cigarette filters that are disposed of into the environment each year — our method is just one way of achieving this,» said Professor Jongheop Yi, from Seoul National University.

Also this week, in findings that Curtin University's Mike Daube described in The Age as «one of the most important papers on tobacco in recent years», a US study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute found that cigarette filters have increased the risk of lung cancer from smoking.