Posted on 07/29/2021 6:40:11 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Were you aware that cigarette butts are the category of waste that is least disposed of? Every year, no fewer than 4.5 trillion cigarette butts are found in the wilds, even they can take up to 14 years to decompose... It’s enough to make you see red.
To fight against this plague, Dutch engineers working with Delft University of Technology have invented the BeachBot, an autonomous robot capable of picking up cigarette butts from the ground.
Tired of seeing their children find cigarette butts on beaches, Edwin Bos and Martijn Lukaart, Dutch engineers from TechTics, set out to create the BeachBot, an autonomous robot whose sensors have the ability to identify cigarette butts on beaches.
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..or FagBot.
Ban this. Ban that. Ban plastic straws and plastic bags. Ban smokers and their cigarette butts. Ban the unvaccinated. Everybody jumps on the BANd wagon instead of addressing the real issue of littering. Litter bugs are the real problem. Not the items that get tossed. 🤨 Leave my butts alone.
Cig butts are everywhere.
As long as Joe is that a mandating mode why doesn’t he mandate that cigarettes be sold without filters. Or roll-your-own. People who want filters would buy tham as an accessory item.
They have a device towed behind an ATV that does this on Siesta Beach in Florida.
“groomer of the stool”
In the British Parliamentary system, there is the “Privy Counsel”.
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