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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
>
>
>
>

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