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Have you ever cleaned up around fishing ponds? I do frequently. Why is it people can't dispose of the worm containers, they aren't heavy. I find piles of them, along with lots fishing line, bottles, discarded diapers etc. the butts aren't that big a deal, at least they stomp them out. Littering and dumping garbage is a big problem, especially with the escalating costs of taking it to the dump. I've even come across dead livestock dumped at the entrance to a park.
I don't know whether any of you younger people know about what we used to run into in Germany with cigarettes. Bums would go around in cities collecting butts after they found them and after they got a sackful they could sell them to be reused in German factories. I really didn't want to use the German cigarettes because of the heavily saturated (tars and nicotine) so I always field stripped my butts as the Army required we do on post. I had more than one of those bums call me not very nice games because I spread their living around on the ground. Back in those days (middle 1950s)very few smoked any kind of filtered cigarettes other than Kools.
Something like 5 trillion littered cigarette butts end up in the environment (very often waterways) each year. That's over 2 billion pounds of toxic-chemical laden plastic. I care very much. I don't know why this isn't in the news much more often.
I walk all the time I don't see very many. I see a lot of those plastic lids off soda cups and dog poop.
Ooooh. Yeah. The dog doodoo is bad. We always, well 99% (rare occassions forget or get caught without) use the little plastic bags (even try and use the biodegradable ones even though I am not convinced of manmade global warming.) But, frequently see others out with their dogs, who make no effort to clean up after their pet even when its on someone's (often my ) lawn.
But, like you, I really don't see that many cigarette butts. But then I don't go into a big city much. Maybe that's where others are finding them.
Something like 5 trillion littered cigarette butts end up in the environment (very often waterways) each year. That's over 2 billion pounds of toxic-chemical laden plastic. I care very much. I don't know why this isn't in the news much more often.
And it's been this way for 100 years. Yet now you are getting worked up over it?
Smoking is not only a dirty habit but smokers are at large dirty though their littering. Thousands of butts can be seen at the stop sign at the base of most busy interstate off ramps. Distgusting really.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but I smoke and don't litter. In fact, I started an entire thread about this over in POC. I will put them out on the ground and then back in the pack or in my car. Don't generalize.
I walk a lot......some areas have literally thousands of butts everywhere. Some areas look so bad due to the filthy butts EVERYWHERE. And this stuff gets into the water systems......man.....pretty sad.
How about a recycling tax, say 10 cents a cigarette, you get the money back when you turn in your butts at a recycling center.
I walk a lot......some areas have literally thousands of butts everywhere. Some areas look so bad due to the filthy butts EVERYWHERE. And this stuff gets into the water systems......man.....pretty sad.
How about a recycling tax, say 10 cents a cigarette, you get the money back when you turn in your butts at a recycling center.
Never was a problem until everyone was forced to smoke outside
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