Butts
I must confess, litter drives me crazy—and the worst is cigarette butts. Not only are they unsightly and take up to 10 years to biodegrade, but 4.5 trillion cigarette filters enter the ocean each year, endangering wildlife that ingest the plastic (cellulose acetate) and heavy metals. There are three solutions. First, educate smokers and issue heavy fines for who litter. Second, redesign the cigarette filter, which greenbutts has already done, creating a natural, rapidly degrading butt. And third, use drones and algorithms to identify and pick up discarded filters, which has been tested by Kinetica with 98% accuracy.
— Wayne Visser
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