Cigarette Butts Combat Heavy Metals
February 14, 2025
February 14, 2025
TOWNSVILLE, Australia, Feb. 14 -- James Cook University issued the following news release:
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Cigarette butts combat heavy metals
Environmentally hazardous cigarette butts may ironically hold the answer to cleansing Australia's waterways of major metal contaminants, according to a new James Cook University-led study.
JCU Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering Dr Elsa Antunes and her team found that char created from thermally decomposing ci . . .
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Cigarette butts combat heavy metals
Environmentally hazardous cigarette butts may ironically hold the answer to cleansing Australia's waterways of major metal contaminants, according to a new James Cook University-led study.
JCU Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering Dr Elsa Antunes and her team found that char created from thermally decomposing ci . . .