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Discarded cigarette butt helped investigators solve 52-year-old mystery of who killed a Vermont school teacher
The murder of Rita Curran remained unsolved for 52 years. But investigators finally found an answer…
Joshua Zitser
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Meet BeachBot, a beach rover that uses AI to remove cigarette butts from beaches
‘BB’, short for BeachBot, has proved to find even those partially buried in the sand. The protot…
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A company in India has found a way to recycle cigarette butts into toys and mosquito repellant
Two-thirds of all smoked cigarettes are littered every year. One company has found a way to reuse t…
Prakhar Deep Jain,Will Storey…
A company in India has found a way to recycle cigarette butts into toys and mosquito repellant
Cigarette butts are the most littered item in the world — trillions get dropped every year. One com…
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Google's Arts & Culture experiment uses jellyfish, bumblebees, flying cigarette butts and more to teach us about climate change
These artists used key findings from a UN report and data from scientific institutions like the …
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Littered cigarette butts are the most widespread man-made pollutant and they harm plant growth, according to study
The BBC reports that the study says an estimated 4.5 trillion butts are littered globally each year…
Ellen Cranley,Ellen Cranley
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There are more cigarette butts in the world's oceans than any other type of garbage
Those filters can take decades to decompose after the cigarette butt has been discarded. As the pla…
John Walsh
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A passenger smoked a cigarette in a plane bathroom and sparked a trash can fire during a flight, airline said
An Israeli passenger smoked a cigarette in the plane's bathroom on an El Al flight from Tel Aviv to…
Joshua Zitser
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North Korea is about to drop cigarette butts, trash, and 12 million propaganda leaflets onto South Korea in its latest psychological-warfare move
According to state media, the propaganda leaflets express "the wrath and hatred" of the North Korea…
James Pasley
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How To Quit Smoking: Stick Your Head In A Can Of Cigarette Butts, Says Famed Psychologist
"I was about 32 years old at the time, and this poor man on a gurney had his arm stretched out at h…
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Philip Morris is betting on e-cigarettes and new flavors as it feels the heat from Juul and KT&G
Tighter regulations pose another challenge. The South Korean government has raised taxes on cigaret…
Theron Mohamed
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E-cigarettes Create Jitters Among Health Watchers, Policy Makers
A country that has been proactive in implementing the ban on smoking in public, is now facing a new…
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My family went back to Scotland for the first time in 6 years. The restaurants were allergy-friendly, and we were surprised by how friendly people were.
My family has dual UK and US citizenship and recently returned to Scotland on vacation. Here's what…
Nicole Findlay
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My partner and I went on our first trip together and it caused a big fight. I feared it was the end of our relationship.
When my partner and I went to Europe together, I struggled to communicate what I wanted to do on th…
Edson Montenegro
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North Korea sends new wave of up to 720 trash-filled balloons into South Korea
North Korea sent up to 720 trash-filled balloons across the border with South Korea, in addition to…
Cameron Manley
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From Weed To Wellness: Cannabis is no longer a bad word thanks to startups like Trost that promise to bring solace to users
During the pandemic, the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India issued a notification that sa…
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Crows and magpies are getting revenge on humans by using anti-bird spikes around their nests as weapons
Crows and magpies in Europe have figured out how to use human-made spikes to repel other birds from…
Marianne Guenot
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Japanese police arrest diners accused of 'sushi terrorism,' after videos of pranksters licking soy sauce bottles and rubbing saliva on conveyor-belt food goes viral
In recent months unhygienic pranks in Japan's famed sushi conveyor belt restaurants have become a v…