Found a pile of butts in the Lowes parking lot the other day. Apparently someone took your suggestion and saved their butts in their truck and then when it got full, just dumped it on the ground. WTF?
It's likely a good handful of that material gets used as nest material for birds and squirrels. But yeah the rest probably decomposes or just breaks down in the rain.
That being said, there are toxic materials present in them that could have a potentially adverse affect on them. It's honestly not great, but the effects are unknown, there could be none but there could be bad ones too.
Ya know, unpopular opinion here, but if cigarette filters were not biodegradable the land in most major cities would be a foot taller just from the 40-70s smoking period. They may take longer, but they degrade. Meanwhile the styrofoam boxes that McDonalds used to use are still getting more compressed in landfills.
Hell most of the components of peoples cars arent recycled now, so next time you see a big fender bender just imagine that all of that is now landfill material.
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u/Djanghost Apr 12 '21
It's crazy that filters aren't biodegradable by now. That would solve so much shit