# Trash
Cigarette Butts Are Toxic Waste, Berkeley Experts Say
Most people today know that smoking is bad for you, and for people around you. But many people probably don’t realize how incredibly bad it is for the environment. A cigarette butt casually flicked onto the ground might not seem like much. But experts at the University of California Berkeley say these discarded butts actually leach toxic chemicals into the environment and cause all manner of other problems.
You Won't Believe What We Found On Our Adopt A Mile Trash Pickup
A little over a mile of trash pickup and we found some of the wildest stuff in that short distance.
Our First Adopt A Mile Trash Pickup Didn't Go As Planned
Our first trash pickup for our sponsored adopt a mile started out with the right energy, but a few things got off track, so we had to improvise.
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Suspicious Man Keeps Going Through My Trash
This is a nonfiction recollection of events as experienced by me; used with permission. I live in Oregon where cans and bottles are now 10 cents each if you recycle them. At the time of the following events they were 5 cents which is still good if you can collect a lot. Because of their value, people used to go through the trash on my street the night before trash got picked up. Or so I thought.
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