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| Thread ID: 69422 | 2006-06-01 00:39:00 | Do you hate .... | KiwiTT_NZ (233) | PC World Chat |
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| 459629 | 2006-06-01 00:39:00 | ... smokers who just simply drop their "butts" anywhere. I think this is as disgusting and disrespectful as "taggers". see story (www.stuff.co.nz) "Officials estimate that about 32 billion butts were discarded inappropriately around Australia in 2005." ... I suspect NZ would have over a few billion too! |
KiwiTT_NZ (233) | ||
| 459630 | 2006-06-01 00:44:00 | Also hate people who stick their chewing gum to stuff instead of throwing it in a bin. | CYaBro (73) | ||
| 459631 | 2006-06-01 00:49:00 | Well I ticked yes even though I admit I do it myself. Did you know, in Singapore there's a $50 fine for dropping a but in the street? |
JJJJJ (528) | ||
| 459632 | 2006-06-01 01:17:00 | I don't have a problem with it - they're biodegradable. No worse than leaves or bits of paper. | Greg (193) | ||
| 459633 | 2006-06-01 01:34:00 | By coincidence very recently received the Wellington Regional Council ecological newsletter which had this item: "Did you know? Cigarette butts are one of the most common – if not the most common – forms of litter. The filters are made of synthetic fibre that takes years to break down, and are not biodegradable. Used filters contain several chemicals, including nicotine, that harm the health of wildlife that eat them. Large cleanup campaigns in the United States have found that cigarette butts and filters make up one third of the litter items picked up. Next time you walk past a street drain sump after heavy rain, have a look down it and see how many butts are in there. " |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 459634 | 2006-06-01 02:54:00 | I don't have a problem with it - they're biodegradable. No worse than leaves or bits of paper. Really? Biodegradable? Last week I was digging out for a new underground or self-buried run of PVC for a 110v circuit. The last time the house was worked on at that depth around the footing was when it was built, in 1960. There were cigarette butts in the dirt from brands that have not been produced in years: Salems, Tarreytons and Lucky Strikes. Soggy and discolored, but still readable, they were not degraded in the least, or not very much anyway. Ever hear of "field-stripping" a butt in the military? It involves shredding it so fine that an enemy cannot find trace of it in a jungle. The military would not train smokers to do that if they thought the butts were going to degrade very much at all. |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 459635 | 2006-06-01 03:25:00 | I dunno - some people must be on the Cigarette Butt Lookout Patrol, because I never notice them. Not surprising that you'd see a lot of them in storm water drains, after a heavy rainfall. They float. A bit like leaves really. As for not being biodegradable - well I must just be the one lucky fellow that has Acid Earth around my house, because the few that miss my outdoor ashtray seem to just shrivel up and disintegrate into the soil - whoooahhhh I better not walk barefoot outside anymore! |
Greg (193) | ||
| 459636 | 2006-06-01 03:28:00 | Used filters contain several chemicals, including nicotine, that harm the health of wildlife that eat them." I use ashtrays. And wildlife that eat them? Show me an animal or bird stupid enough to eat something that tastes like that. Rubbish. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 459637 | 2006-06-01 05:31:00 | I've never dropped my butt in the street... tight jeans help :blush: | Shortcircuit (1666) | ||
| 459638 | 2006-06-01 05:35:00 | I use ashtrays. And wildlife that eat them? Show me an animal or bird stupid enough to eat something that tastes like that. Rubbish. And yet many otherwise 'intelligent' humans ingest the stuff on a very regular basis (the stuff the filters catch - or rather don't catch - I mean) |
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