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>& --000000000000017537058b830ce9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Here is the link to the article in *New Scientist* - no mention of any details of the "experiment". https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22229750-200-time-to-kick-cigarette-butts-theyre-toxic-trash/ Nancy On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 6:43 AM Don MacNeill <donmacneill@bellaliant.net> wrote: > 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 & InsectRecovery.org > 1-902-293-1533 > Twitter @RememberTata & @InsectRecovery > > On Jun 16, 2019, at 9:01 PM, N Robinson <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> > 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 & InsectRecovery.org >> 1-902-293-1533 >> Twitter @RememberTata & @InsectRecovery >> >> On Jun 16, 2019, at 6:27 PM, Parker Donham <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> >> 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 >> Contrarian.ca >> >> >> > > -- > Nancy Robinson > 514-605-7186 > > > > -- Nancy Robinson 514-605-7186 --000000000000017537058b830ce9 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <div dir=3D"ltr"><div dir=3D"ltr">Here is the link to the article in <i>New= Scientist</i> - no mention of any details of the "experiment".<b= r><br><a href=3D"https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22229750-200-time-t= o-kick-cigarette-butts-theyre-toxic-trash/">https://www.newscientist.com/ar= ticle/mg22229750-200-time-to-kick-cigarette-butts-theyre-toxic-trash/</a><b= r><br></div><div>Nancy<br></div></div><br><div clas