Let’s Talk Trash! JAN/FEB 2018
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Cigarette Recycling Billions of cigarette butts end up in dumpsters, landfills, or get tossed as litter on the shoreline, ponds, sidewalks, and roadways until someone came up with the idea to recycle them. In order to recycle correctly, make sure the cigarette is completely extinguished. Once the cigarettes are collected, they are separated into composition and melted into hard plastic. For example, someone made a casket out of cigarette butts, as well as pillows, dresses, clothes, and even a surf board!
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SMoKiN’ ButtS What are Cigarettes? Cigarettes contain over 4,000 chemicals, including 43 known cancer causing compounds and over 400 other toxins. They mainly include nicotine , tar, and carbon monoxide. With these having nicotine in them, they are very addictive. How Harmful are Cigarettes to the Envrionment? Cigarettes contain two main atmosphere polluting chemicals, carbon dioxide and methane. Although those two are not lethal to humans who smoke, they do contribute to overall atmospheric pollution.
Swiss street artist Jinks Kunst, who is popular for his stencil artworks, created Serge Gainbourg, the French singera’s portrait with more than 20,000 cigarette filters. A diehard fan of the singer, Kunst collected cigarette butts from streets for the past three years in order to make his unique portrait. He used over 20,394 used cigarette butts to create his portrait which is currently kept for display in Nantes. Jesus Bubu Negron, a Puerto Rican artist, had commissioned street cleaners for collecting used cigarette butts with the help of which he made a carpet. The carpet has been made with both the white as well as the yellow portion of the cigarette. Its design is similar to that of woven textile rugs. Alexandra Guerrero, Chilean fashion designer, created something quite fashionable. She has recycled used cigarette butts into stylish clothing including a dress, poncho, hat, sweater and soaps. 5000 cigarette butts have been utilized in the process. The durability of these clothes is similar to that of regular woolen garments. Parisian designer Flore Garcia Bour created a smoking dress which has completely been made out of discarded cigarette butts. The 22 year old Bour picked up cigarette butts from streets and stitched them into a smoking dress. She also highlighted on the fact that decomposing a butt takes a long time. She is hoping that her dress shocks as well as makes smokers aware of the harm they invite by throwing their cigarette butts away which degrade within 12 years at the worst or 18 months at the best. Boura’s recently stitched dress will not have the foul smell of the cigarette butts with which they have been made. For warding off the foul smell from the dress, Bour treated them. This coffin has been made with ten thousand used cigarette butts while its handles are made of cigars. It is a full size coffin which is 7 foot long and has 6 sides. What can be more innovative and interesting than a car made of cigarette butts? One cannot imagine how many cigarette butts have been used for making this art car totally covered in butts.
Definitions:
Nicotine is very bad for the body but it also causes you to want more the more you have it. Compounds are when two or more elements fuse together to make something else, like how one carbon and one oxygen form to make Carbon Monoxide.
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