Comments on: How can I reuse or recycle cigarette butts?

By: Responsible Smokers Act

Responsible Smokers Act — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:59:31 +0000

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By: robert

robert — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 12:47:50 +0000

yes please, can someon answer hassan? :) i wud also like to know.

By: hassan

hassan — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 18:18:45 +0000

hi,please can you tell me more details about recycle cigarrete butts and can be used for what ,thanks

By: pablada

pablada — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 15:42:52 +0000

John the chemist,
Can we talk further about this?
I would like to work with the idea…
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Looking forward hearing form you.

By: Kiah Zepeda

Kiah Zepeda — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 21:26:46 +0000

I just want to know if anyone knows what I should do with all my cigarette butts?. Do they go in a regular trash container? Is there a way I could recycle them? A place to take them or anything alike?.

Thanks!

By: John Smith From Back East

John Smith From Back East — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 18:11:17 +0000

Although many elements and compounds are indeed in cig butts, one must factor in that they have been somewhat dissipated by low heat, the water further weakens presence of the so called “nasties” by reducing parts per million, inducing further dispersion through the tea. Soak em and then toss them. Some recycle gain if using the tea there, a TON of paranoid environmental worries can be put to ease by truly considering enzymes, elements and compounds in your own saliva. You would not lick it up if you drooled, but you swallow it daily, hourly, by the minute and second for that matter. Try it, don’t try to baffle others with B.S. That is not the point here. We can all spout out multi-syllable words. That means what to someone with pest issues?

By: John the chemist

John the chemist — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:47:27 +0000

Four points:

1) If you look on any materials industrial database, contrary to Anti-Tobacco’s indoctrination, you will find that cellulose acetate IS biodegradable.

2) Nicotinic pesticide is approved for organic use. Nicotine is an allelochemical. ALL plants naturally produce them to ward off pests. Those from the Curare plant, a long, poisonous vine loaded with alkaloids, are used by Amazon natives to tip poison darts. How toxic are those from a carrot, apple, cauliflower……… ?

3) “Arsenic, formaldehyde, chromium and lead” – arsenic, chromium and lead and many other ‘nasties’, including polonium-210, are absorbed by ALL plants from the soil and the atmosphere. Formaldehyde is produced naturally by the human body.

4) “There are 1,400 potential chemical additives.” EVERYTHING is constituted from ‘chemicals’ – there are MILLIONS of them in the human body. The vast majority of these ‘chemicals’ are natural spices, herbs and oils or approved food additives. (Does everyone eat their food raw?)

By: amelia

amelia — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 21:37:55 +0000

DO NO put the tea talked about here in your soil or on your plants. If it were just tobacco, maybe but cigarette butts include arsenic, formaldehyde, chromium and lead. Indeed, there are 1,400 potential chemical additives. Toxicological data has shown that these chemicals from discarded cigarette butts are capable of leaching into surrounding water where they can harm aquatic life. Nicotine has been shown to be lethal to species of fish, crustaceans, zooplankton, and other aquatic organisms, as well as being a known insecticide. On top of leeching toxins, cigarette butts present an ingestion, choking and poisoning hazard to wildlife who mistake them for food, and because cigarette filters are composed of cellulose acetate, a form of plastic that can persist in the environment for long periods of time. Plastics of this sort have been found in the stomachs of sea turtles, fish, birds, whales and other marine creatures.

By: Beth Redstone

Beth Redstone — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 15:13:54 +0000

Remove the paper, soak the tobbacco in water, strain and use as a bug repellant in the garden.

By: Shaun Grimes

Shaun Grimes — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 10:46:39 +0000

I’ve solved the problem of cigarette butt recycling. Please look at my website.

By: Shorty

Shorty — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:04:36 +0000

You guys are all thinking about natural, Indian-style tobbacco cigarettes as pesticides, I don’t know how strong the cigarettes there are, but the ones here are chock full of chemicals. I doubt you’d want all that anywhere near a plant you’ll be eating.

By: Shaun

Shaun — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 16:20:36 +0000

I think I’ve solved the problem.

By: Here in Texas

Here in Texas — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:58:23 +0000

Using tobacco tea as a pesticide is very, very effective… and also quite dangerous for humans as well as insects. Human skin has pores and so do leaves- these are portals for absorption of anything placed on its surface that is small enough to get into them. You can fertilize plants through their leaves and you can absorb medications transdermally. The catch about tobacco tea is that it should never, ever be used on food crops, because it is absorbed by the plant (then you)- and if you’re an organic gardener, it’ll kill all of your beneficial insects along with the bad guys.The only acceptable use for tobacco tea is on ornamentals. Tobacco works on nerve tissue- it’s a central nervous system stimulant- if you do use this tea, you MUST make sure it is NEVER left where children and pets could get to it… it’s highly toxic… and if you do insist upon this remedy, wear gloves. Do not let it touch your skin otherwise you could make yourself quite ill, too. Lastly, I wouldn’t apply it on a windy day, either. Hope this helps you out.

By: Meg from FruWiki

Meg from FruWiki — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 18:53:54 +0000

Arlee, how do you know that those pesticides won’t be absorbed by the plant and will be washed off? People thought that about other pesticides, but actual testing of pesticide loads has proved differently! (But warning, you’ll never eat a non-organic peach again if you read up on that.)

By: arlee

arlee — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:43:18 +0000

If you soak cigarette butts in water, you have a pesticide–it will not be absorbed by the plant, and will wash off. I use it as a last resort for pests that have no natural predators in our area. Adding a teeny bit of soap to make it stick to the bug, means it will clog their sphericles and suffocate them. Gruesome, but effective.

By: Meg from FruWiki

Meg from FruWiki — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:20:27 +0000

Ewwwww…. Knowing just some of the poisons in those things I can’t imagine wearing them, no matter how well they’re cleaned. They deserve to be treated like toxic waste, because that is what they are. I’m normally all for recycling and reusing things, but not these. Off to the landfill they go! And hopefully packed well enough that the nastier chemicals don’t leak out.

I do really feel for people who are addicted. I’ve seen how hard it is for some of my loved ones to try to quit even as higher prices keep eating away at already lean budgets and as they worry about what that new cough means. But at the very least, if you can not find a way to quit, please consider those new electric water vapor cigarettes. They *seem* like they’d be better for the environment and maybe slightly less bad for your health as well.