Turning cigarette butt waste into an alternative control tool against an insecticide-resistant mosquito vector

Dieng, Hamady; Rajasaygar, Sudha; Ahmad, Abu Hassan; Ahmad, Hamdan; Rawi, Che Salmah Md; Zuharah, Wan Fatma; Satho, Tomomitsu; Miake, Fumio; Fukumitsu, Yuki; Saad, Ahmad Ramli; Ghani, Idris Abd.; Vargas, Ronald Enrique Morales; Majid, Abdul Hafiz Ab; AbuBakar, Sazaly

doi:10.1016/j.actatropica.2013.08.013

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“…However, signs of genotoxicity in house finches have been seen to increase with the amount of butt cellulose in their nests (Suarez-Rodriguez and Garcia 2014). In addition, mosquitoes that have hatched in water environments containing cigarette butts have been shown to have shorter life spans (Dieng et al 2014) and higher mortality rates during developmental stages (Dieng et al 2013). Cigarette butt leachate in seawater has also been shown to cause mortality and behavioral modifications in snails (Booth et al 2015).…”

Section: Animal Exposurementioning

confidence: 99%

Measuring Airborne Emissions from Cigarette Butts: Literature Review and Experimental Plan

Poppendieck¹,

Khurshid²,

Emmerich³

2016

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Under an interagency agreement with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), a comprehensive literature review was conducted to gather and analyze existing research related to airborne emissions from non-smoldering cigarette butts. Based on the results from the literature review, an experimental plan was developed to measure the airborne emissions from non-smoldering cigarette butts. The literature review found that: 1) Non-smoldering cigarette butts can contain many of the same chemicals found in mainstream and sidestream smoke, and they are a potential source of these chemicals in both indoor and outdoor environments; 2) A number of studies have investigated the chemicals found in cigarette butts and chemicals leached? from cigarette butts into water. However, there are very limited data on the emissions from cigarette butts into air; 3) The emission rates from cigarette butts into air may be minimal for some heavy chemicals (e.g., metals, tobacco-specific nitrosamines), but may be significant for more volatile chemicals (e.g., nicotine, pyridine, benzene); 4) The airborne emissions of cigarette butts may be influenced by the cigarette brand, filter material, butt length, environmental temperature, airflow around the cigarette, number of puffs during smoking, degradation of the butt, and smoking method; 5) Much more data are needed on the airborne emission rates under different conditions. Based on the information from the literature review, the proposed experimental plan aims to fill the data gaps by using a screening tool (e.g. headspace analysis) to examine the airborne emission from non-smoldering cigarette butts under various environmental conditions. Steps in the proposed investigation include development of headspace analysis methods, selection of cigarette brand, determination of butt length, generation of cigarette butts, and determination of the target compounds. The proposed experiments will be conducted under four exposure environments, including small chamber, large chamber (to mimic indoor conditions), Simulation Photo-degradation via High Energy Radiation Emission chamber (SPHERE), with ultra violet radiation to simulate accelerated aging in outdoor environments, and outdoor rooftop (to represent aging in an outdoor environment).

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Section: Animal Exposurementioning

confidence: 99%

Measuring Airborne Emissions from Cigarette Butts: Literature Review and Experimental Plan

Poppendieck¹,

Khurshid²,

Emmerich³

2016

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“…Beyond being unsightly, when disposed of in the environment CBs pose a major threat to living organisms and ecosystem health (review in [ 5 ]). The few studies available report that CBs are toxic to microbes and cladocerans [ 6 ], insects [ 7 ], and also fish [ 8 ]. A recent study reported that CBs affect avian behaviour in urban ecosystems [ 9 ].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cigarette Butt Decomposition and Associated Chemical Changes Assessed by 13C CPMAS NMR

et al. 2015

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Cigarette butts (CBs) are the most common type of litter on earth, with an estimated 4.5 trillion discarded annually. Apart from being unsightly, CBs pose a serious threat to living organisms and ecosystem health when discarded in the environment because they are toxic to microbes, insects, fish and mammals. In spite of the CB toxic hazard, no studies have addressed the effects of environmental conditions on CB decomposition rate. In this study we investigate the interactive effects of substrate fertility and N transfer dynamics on CB decomposition rate and carbon quality changes. We carried out an experiment using smoked CBs and wood sticks, used as a slow decomposing standard organic substrate, incubated in both laboratory and field conditions for two years. CB carbon quality changes during decomposition was assessed by 13C CPMAS NMR. Our experiment confirmed the low degradation rate of CBs which, on average, lost only 37.8% of their initial mass after two years of decomposition. Although a net N transfer occurred from soil to CBs, contrary to our hypothesis, mass loss in the medium-term (two years) was unaffected by N availability in the surrounding substrate. The opposite held for wood sticks, in agreement with the model that N-rich substrates promote the decomposition of other N-poor natural organic materials with a high C/N ratio. As regards CB chemical quality, after two years of decomposition 13C NMR spectroscopy highlighted very small changes in C quality that are likely to reflect a limited microbial attack.

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“…Nicotine can be obtained from powdered tobacco leaves, extracts from tobacco plants, waste from the tobacco industry, aqueous extracts of cigarette butts, and can also be synthesized [132][133][134][135].…”

Section: Nicotinementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Dieng et al [135] studied the effect of using a pesticide solution manufactured using cigarette butts against Aedes aegypti and observed insecticidal activity against its larvae.…”

Section: Nicotinementioning

confidence: 99%

Natural Organic Compounds for Application in Organic Farming

2020

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Chemical fertilizers, pesticides, and fungicides are widely used in agriculture to improve crop yields. Most of the compounds used are synthetic, and their overuse causes environmental pollution and human health problems. Currently, several countries are working to reduce the use of agrochemicals. Organic agriculture is now emerging as a sustainable alternative to traditional agriculture using environmentally friendly strategies such as the application of organic fertilizers from plant and animal waste and pesticides based on plant extracts and microbials. However, the availability of commercial biopesticides and organic fertilizers is very limited because there are certain barriers to the commercialization of biological products. These barriers include small available quantities of raw materials and strict registration laws requiring toxicological tests and other studies that are expensive and time consuming. The objective of this review is to provide details about the various organic fertilizers and pesticides that do not have the same disadvantages as synthetic compounds in terms of persistence and toxicity.

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Turning cigarette butt waste into an alternative control tool against an insecticide-resistant mosquito vector

Cited by 53 publications

References 20 publications

Measuring Airborne Emissions from Cigarette Butts: Literature Review and Experimental Plan

Measuring Airborne Emissions from Cigarette Butts: Literature Review and Experimental Plan

Cigarette Butt Decomposition and Associated Chemical Changes Assessed by 13C CPMAS NMR

Natural Organic Compounds for Application in Organic Farming

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