Tag: Cigarette butts

Single-use plastic: Cigarette butts, 11 other items to be banned by Centre

Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan said that the ban would come up in a phased manner.

September 14, 2019

Cigarette butts to eliminate mosquitoes?

Cigarette butts (CBs) thrown into garbage as trash can be turned into a valuable resource for killing mosquitoes that cause malaria, a new study by an international team, including from India, has revealed. This novel method for pest control — using CBs for the synthesis of silver nanostructures — has been reported by the international …

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September 22, 2017