Garbage to Adhesive
“The Feasibility of an Adhesive Obtained from Cigarette Butts and Acetone”
Abstract
Cigarette butts are the most common waste of our world nowadays. Many people are using cigarettes for relieving stress. After consuming these cigarettes, they just throw it anywhere. In the park, streets and alleys where everywhere you look you’ll see cigarette butts. As a concerned citizen we decided to make a new useful product. The purpose of this project is to lessen waste due to cigarette butts and turn it into something reusable. By this project, we can help the environment by decreasing the waste scattered everywhere, stop pollution and reduce waste that is dangerous not just for environment but also to our health.
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And the some of the test needed the sensory organs. And the others is tested through using a paper and using it as adhesive. And from the results it shows that there are only few differences between the commercial and home-made adhesive. So after testing, commercial one and home-made adhesive is just like the same and generally we can use the combination as an alternative for high cost commercial branded glues.
Conclusion
After conducting our project, we therefore conclude that an adhesive obtained from the cigarette butts and acetone is great combination to form an alternative for commercial adhesive.
The results shows that the cigarette filters is dissolved by the acetone and formed an alternative for high cost adhesives. Also the results shows that it has only few differences from the commercial adhesives. In our observation, the adhesive has a sticky kind of appearance.
Melting process was done to produce the adhesive from cigarette filters using acetone as a solvent. The adhesive obtained from the cigarette filters was able to meet the standard properties of the other commercial adhesive.
As time passes by, we tend to search for more cheaper but extra-ordinary look. An acetone and cigarette filter combination is good as an alternative for commercial branded adhesives. Furthermore, used cigarette are waste turned into a new useful
Mosts if not all e-cigarettes work the same way. On the inside theres a heatng lemnet, battery and a cartirdge which holds nicotineas and other liiquids that provide flavoring. By providing the user with nictine, it elimnates cigareette smoke and provide the user with vapor instead. Back April of this year, Maine lawmakers proclaimed that they were considering htee possiblily of including e-cigarretes to the state's no smaking law for bars, parks, estuarants and other publicareas. This occuresed as a result of the bill (LD 1108) that Rep. Jeff McCabe, introduced back in march of this year.
Cigarettes are highly addictive, manufactured, special tobacco cut fills that may or may not have a filter. They are known to be harmful to health and are habit forming. This increases dependency on cigarettes as these are consumed at casual times and to combat anxiety and stress. The United States has a large number of active smokers. For this reason, neighboring discount Canadian cigarettes have a fairly ready market in America.
An e-cigarette is our future to the new world. This little pen can reduce deaths and diseases. It doesn’t contain the nasty stuff inside a cigarette. The pen dose not smell like crap, it gives off a good smell from vape juice you use to smoke.
In Tina Rosenberg’s article, “Ugly is the New Look for Cigarette Packs”, the main issue focuses mainly on how packaging is used to both dissuade and persuade people when purchasing the product. More specifically, smoking is a product, with the ability to sell based heavily on how its customers portray the product. The argument on how to dissuade people from purchasing cigarettes is discussed heavily, and Rosenberg includes many examples used by various countries to succeed in decreasing in cigarette sales. On the other hand, the discussion on what is used to persuade customers into buying the cigarettes is section of her article that shows how easily people are swayed into purchasing a specific brand of cigarette. By mentioning how cigarette companies persuade customers, it also provides a secondary issue in the article, about whether or not it is ethical to persuade customers in this manner.
In the year 1600, tobacco spread all through the United States and in the nations around it. To the people in America, tobacco smoking was taken as a tradition which they all had adopted. By the year 1604, James I the king of England, opposed tobacco smoking, saying that it would cause wild behaviors to the people. By then, tobacco smoking had become a habit for most of the people in England and they begged to be allowed to continue doing it. In the year 1612, tobacco was planted not only to be consumed now but also as a cash crop.
It is so easy for people to ignore the problems that are right in front of their face. Cigarette butts plague city streets, entrances to malls, almost every alley, and basically all city plazas. Smoking and the lingering odor it leaves behind has become a normal, even expectable, aspect of life as it inescapable in every nook and cranny of town. Smoking is one of the largest contributors to disease in the United States, yet cigarettes are still such a normal image for the naked eye. DoSomething’s GTFO campaign is something I can get behind as I am able to make a difference throughout my city.
Another item that was specifically placed was the text. Due to the small font and how the warning labels were thrown to the side shows you that they didn’t want their viewers to pay much attention, if any, because you would be remined of reality. These warning labels are only listed because by law it must be, but I can bet if they didn’t have to it wouldn’t be anywhere near this ad. In addition to having the labels in this way, this ad doesn’t want you to be reminded by how cigarettes are still cancer sticks. How yearly, roughly 443,000 people died from smoking.
Although the effort to try and eliminate conventional smoking for good is obvious, the way some people go about this elimination is not as safe as they want to think. Among the abundant ways these people have tried to disregard the fateful habit of cigarette smoking, the one that has shown up progressively more throughout the years is the electronic cigarette. Since the electronic cigarette does not use burning tobacco as a means of getting their dose of nicotine, the unconventional cigarette is hailed as being much safer by several unknowing minds. While the electronic cigarette could be useful for stopping the use of the conventional cigarette, the damage this unconventional cigarette is capable of can be even greater than a regular cigarette
Cigarette Smoking is the leading cause of preventable deaths in the United states. One out of every five deaths fault to cigarette smoking. Did you know fifteen out of every 100 adults smoke cigarettes? The advertisement I chose is a bullet on top and a cigarette on the bottom. The bullet quotes the word quick and the cigarette says slow.
Advertisements today control much of how people go about their days. Without a well-presented advertisement, products would not sell. An advertisement can create controversy if presented in a way that offends a group which will result in no sell to the product offered. However, when advertisements are shown correctly, even with the most harmful products like cigarettes, proven to cause lung cancer, can sell. Moreover, each advertisement brings along a different opinion which usually provides the opportunity for a counter-argument from various groups that would demote a product to promote another or to give awareness for a dangerous product.
The e-cigarette was first invented in 2003 in Beijing, China by a man named Hon Lik, he is a 52 year old pharmacist, inventor and smoker. He got the idea of the electronic cigarette after his father whom was a heavy smoker, past-away from lung cancer .An e-cigarette is an electronic smoking device that is a battery- powered vaporizer which has a similar feel to tobacco smoking. This type of cigarette does not contain tobacco but has nicotine which is addictive from tobacco plants. The electronic cigarette does not produce smoke like a normal cigarette but produce vapour.
rehabcenter.net - The Unknown Dangers of Vaping/E-Cigs and How it Effects Your Health E-cigarettes are very rapidly becoming major business in the smoking cessation world. They are very simple in their design. They are basically a tube that holds a battery, a heating element, and a container of liquid nicotine. When a user inhales on the end, they ignite the heating unit, which warms the liquid nicotine into steam that can then be inhaled into the lungs. While some e-cigarettes are disposable after one use, higher end models can be used multiple times.
Electronic cigarettes were first introduced into the tobacco market in 2003. However, in the last few years, electronic cigarettes have been trending, especially among high school students. According to the Surgeon General study, “In 2015, 1 in 6 high school students reported using e-cigarettes in the last month”. The promotion and production of electronic cigarettes is an issue that must be addressed because they are attracting minors who may have never been addicted to nicotine prior to the introduction of e-cigarettes in the market. Companies have branded e-cigarettes as a ‘safer’ alternative to regular cigarettes, however, it is quite possible that consumers, more specifically the youth, are not well informed of the ingredients in them.
This is perhaps true, due to the numbers of people who want an alternative to the addictive and potentially deadly traditional cigarette. HOW DO THEY ACTUALLY WORK? Electronic cigarettes use battery-powered heating elements to vaporize a solution of either vegetable glycerin or propylene glycol with nicotine and added flavors.
The cigarettes are then packed and shipped to various outlets, where it is sold to consumers. Cigarette butts are the remnants which will be considered as a waste product. Function The function of a cigarette is to produce a soothing effect which is caused due to the inhalation of cigarette smoke which is produced by flammable tobacco. Flavour and level of potency are other functions of a cigarette that influence its sale.