Sentences with phrase «had a cigarette butt»

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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.

When I was 10, he would take me to work with him on Saturdays and put me in the parking lot to pick up the cigarette butts and bottle caps.

If I told you that a massive rock concert had been held in your backyard last night, and you went out there and couldn't even find a beer bottle or cigarette butt on the gorunds, you'd know I wasn't telling the truth.

You have to stop and examine each new flower or leaf or blade of grass, every gum wrapped and cigarette butt has to be swept away from little fingers.

Would you want to return it with cigarette butts in the ashtray, dents in the bumper, and an empty gas tank?

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.

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.

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.

Park officials made their plans for the ban public Tuesday, saying the restriction would not only protect children from secondhand smoke but also keep beaches free of cigarette butts.

Park officials made their plans for the ban public Tuesday, saying the restriction would not only protect children from second - hand smoke but also keep beaches free of cigarette butts.

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.»

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

Snuffing out a cigarette butt with a 10 - ton boot would be excessive, but using the equivalent on certain metals can yield amazing results.

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.

At 8 o'clock that evening, I had my fiancé throw out all my cigarettes, ashtrays, the garbage with my butts in it, and all of my lighters except for one.

I've heard of women not only having profoundly strange food cravings, but also developing pica — a craving for nonfood items like dirt, cardboard, sofa cushions, even cigarette butts.

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.

If Beavis and Butt - Head were actually 25, they'd be buying alcohol, cigarettes and probably hookers.

Next a framing scene shows the adult Kathy (Carey Mulligan) exchanging an uneasy smile with Tommy (Andrew Garfield) as he's prepped for surgery, and in a flashback to a school assembly the brittle headmistress (Charlotte Rampling) announces that cigarette butts have been found on the grounds and reminds the students of their special responsibility to maintain their health.

Fires can be natural or human origin, volunteers, criminals, but most are the result of imprudence a cigarette butt, a barbecue, a campfire... Enzo was born in April 2009, a week after his birth, himself and his parents had to leave the city a few days as a natural fire had spread.

I have exactly two minutes to find all of the faults: the twisted seat belt, the seat heater accidentally set on max, the ill - matching adjustment angle of the rear seat backs, the greasy fingerprints on one air vent, the empty water bottle in the drinks cabinet, the cigarette butt in the ashtray, the out - of - alignment passenger sun visor, the dirty floormat, the half - open rear window curtain, and the distant buzzing noise from the improperly muted radio.

When news of a serial killer spreads throughout her new school, Elle worries that the Reaper has been leaving her his calling card in the form of cigarette butts on her doormat and an unusual ribbon in... [Read more...]

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.

If you see that your pet has eaten any Nicotine patches or an ashtray of cigarette butts please call your veterinarian immediately!

One cigarette may have as much as 2 mg of Nicotine with the cigarette butt containing 1 mg of Nicotine, where as Nicotine patches may have up to 15 mg of Nicotine.

My 6 month old dog might have ate a cigarette butt.

Still, cigarettes have plenty of nicotine and even a small cigarette butt can mean serious illness or even death for a small pet.

Jatuporn Buruspat, head of the DMCR said that his team had collected up to 138,000 cigarette butts on a 2.5 km stretch of Patong beach in Phuket.

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.

He probably works on the wall to avoid having to wipe off the hand prints or vacuum up the cigarette butts.

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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.

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.

Consumo Ergo Sum, 2005, Miscellaneous Plastic Container Lids Courtesy of the artist and Morgan Lehman Gallery Curated by Marina Pacini, Chief Curator John Salvest has long made artworks out of used objects such as coffeefilters, cigarette butts, nail clippings, and chewed bubble gum.

Cigarettes and smoking have featured repeatedly in Hirst's works, as a series of stubs individually isolated and displayed on seventeen rows of narrow shelves in a glass - fronted cabinet in Dead Ends, Died Out, Examined 1993 (private collection), or heaped in a stinking mass of butts, ash and other smokers» detritus in an eight foot wide white ashtray called Party Time 1995 (Denver Art Museum).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

She's making a dress, of course.Flore, a 22 year old with a degree in international relations and the president of a small environmental group called Vents Solidaires, has called the project Le Mégot Défi: the cigarette butt challenge.

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.

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

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

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.