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C This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------7278122DF23F7277AB026932 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Comes from tobacco plants. Warfarin is also dangerous but beneficial in small amounts. It would be interesting to know if the study about fish deaths had high or low concentrations of poisons from the filters in whatever amount of water they used. Don Don MacNeill donmacneill@bellaliant.net On 6/16/2019 10:17 PM, Mary Macaulay wrote: > Cough > High grade poisonous fertilizer > > With kindest regards > > Mary (Macaulay), P.Eng. > CEO Insect Recovery Project > Social Enterprise - Tatamagouche Remember Adventures & Caper Cafe > Bed & Breakfast, Pedal Buggy, bike, kayak, coaster & snowshoe rentals, > great bird friendly coffee, organic baking, breakfast & pasta, soups, > stews, vegan curries & chili, pollinator meadow, games & more!! > (Cafe/Buggies Open Wed to Sunday: 8:00 am - 3 pm; Tatamagouche B&B > phone me directly , Angevine Lake Chalet - book via Airbnb) > RememberAdventures.ca <http://RememberAdventures.ca> & > InsectRecovery.org <http://InsectRecovery.org> > 1-902-293-1533 > Twitter @RememberTata & @InsectRecovery > > On Jun 16, 2019, at 9:01 PM, N Robinson <nrobbyn@gmail.com > <mailto:nrobbyn@gmail.com>> wrote: > >> >> A Nova Scotia student has done something useful with the 37.4 pounds >> of cigarette butts he collected over three months on his campus, >> besides showing off what a horrible mess it was. He sent them off to >> an Ontario company where they make fertilizer out of them: >> >> "Even though his class project has been completed, Johannesen said he >> plans to keep picking up cigarette butts so he can send them to a >> recycling company in Toronto where the paper, tobacco, and ash will >> be turned into industrial-grade fertilizer, which is most often used >> on golf courses." The full story can be found here: >> >> https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/nova-scotia-student-s-cigarette-butts-pile-growing-every-day-1.4367145 >> >> Your comments on that "high-grade fertilizer", please. >> >> Nancy >> >> On Sun, Jun 16, 2019 at 7:19 PM Mary Macaulay >> <marymacaulay@hotmail.com <mailto:marymacaulay@hotmail.com>> wrote: >> >> Please note that birds and other wildlife also directly ingest >> these highly poisonous butts - another way in which this highly >> toxic trash contributes to environmental harm. Hope no one on the >> list is excusing themselves from littering in this way thinking >> they are helping out wildlife ..?? >> >> With kindest regards >> >> Mary (Macaulay), P.Eng. >> CEO Insect Recovery Project >> Social Enterprise - Tatamagouche Remember Adventures & Caper Cafe >> Bed & Breakfast, Pedal Buggy, bike, kayak, coaster & snowshoe >> rentals, great bird friendly coffee, organic baking, breakfast & >> pasta, soups, stews, vegan curries & chili, pollinator meadow, >> games & more!! >> (Cafe/Buggies Open Wed to Sunday: 8:00 am - 3 pm; Tatamagouche >> B&B phone me directly , Angevine Lake Chalet - book via Airbnb) >> RememberAdventures.ca <http://RememberAdventures.ca> & >> InsectRecovery.org <http://InsectRecovery.org> >> 1-902-293-1533 >> Twitter @RememberTata & @InsectRecovery >> >> On Jun 16, 2019, at 6:27 PM, Parker Donham <parker@donham.ca >> <mailto:parker@donham.ca>> wrote: >> >>> I asked Prof. Google about this, and she directed me to the >>> following. >>> >>> * From Scientific American:* Cigarette Butts in Nests Deter >>> Bird Parasites >>> <https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/culturing-science/cigarette-butts-in-nests-deter-bird-parasites/>* >>> * From the Economist:*Some birds use discarded cigarettes to >>> fumigate their nests* >>> <https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2017/09/30/some-birds-use-discarded-cigarettes-to-fumigate-their-nests> >>> * From Nature: *City birds use cigarette butts to smoke out >>> parasites >>> <https://www.nature.com/news/city-birds-use-cigarette-butts-to-smoke-out-parasites-1.11952>* >>> * From the New Scientist: *From the New Scientist Birds use >>> cigarette butts for chemical warfare against ticks >>> <https://www.newscientist.com/article/2138655-birds-use-cigarette-butts-for-chemical-warfare-against-ticks/>* >>> >>> These reports in the popular press all seem based on a single >>> study by by three Mexico City researchers published in Biology >>> Letters. The Royal Society has an abstract (but the full paper >>> is behind the usual unconscionable academic paywall): >>> >>> * *Incorporation of cigarette butts into nests reduces nest >>> ectoparasite load in urban birds: new ingredients for an old >>> recipe?* >>> <https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsbl.2012.0931> >>> >>> * >>> * >>> >>> >>> On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 12:17 PM Ken J MacAulay >>> <kenmacaulay@eastlink.ca <mailto:kenmacaulay@eastlink.ca>> wrote: >>> >>> John there was a recent article on-line about wild bees >>> using plastic to >>> line their nests. That article also mentioned birds using >>> cigarette butts >>> in their nests to kill mites etc. Like you, though, I can't >>> remember if it >>> was on a news feed or a FaceBook article. Here is a link to >>> an article that >>> mentions the butt use at the end of the piece. >>> >>> https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/06/wild-bees-building-homes-from-plastic/ >>> >>> Ken MacAulay >>> Port Mouton, NS >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> *Parker Donh**am* >>> +1-902-565-5555 >>> parker@donham.ca <mailto:parker@donham.ca> >>> Contrarian.ca <http://Contrarian.ca> >>> >> >> >&