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If they can take their cellphones, they can certainly take some tiny little cigarette butt container along with them." According to Thomas Novotny, founder of the Cigarette Butt Pollution Project, which aims to eliminate tobacco waste from the environment, "cigarette butts are actually toxic, hazardous waste." He added, "Ninety-nine percent of all cigarette butts are composed of the filter, which is made of a plant-based plastic, that takes years to deteriorate, never really biodegrading completely, and this allows the chemicals to continue to seep out." That means wildlife, including the chick, is at risk of choking on the objects as well as being poisoned by its toxins, according to a research paper Novotny co-authored on the subject

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Longworth, Karina (January 22, 2006)

There was evidence on Thursday that the regimes bloody crackdown had somewhat smothered the dissent after activists said it had killed at least 2,615 people