Would you believe that cigarette butts can be used to save million of dollars by preventing steel to corrode?
This amazing discovery was published by the American Chemical Society’s bi-weekly journal Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research.
Scientists at Xi’an Jiaotong University’s School of Energy and Power Engineering in China identified nine chemicals after immersing cigarette butts in water.
The chemical extracts from the cigarette butts are so toxic that they would kill fish.
But by applying those extracts to steel used in oil pipes, they found that they protected the steel surface from rusting.
The chemicals, including nicotine, appear to be responsible for this anti-corrosion effect, they added.
Over 12 billions of cigarette butts are tossed each day on the streets.
China with its 300 million smokers, is the world’s largest smoking nation and consumes a third of the world’s cigarettes.
Nearly 60 percent of men in China smoke, puffing an average of 15 cigarettes per day.
Recycling those cigarette butts will prove to be very beneficial to the environment and to the steel and petroleum industries.
Corrosion of steel pipes used by the oil industry costs oil producers millions of dollars annually to repair or replace.
Does it mean that smokers will be contributing to the progress of society?
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