What is the truth of the matter? In fact, there is no scientific basis for extracting DNA from discarded cigarette butts. Although saliva will be adsorbed on cigarette butts when smoking, it has been destroyed after long-term placement and multiple transfers, so the statement that DNA is extracted from cigarette butts is not valid.
This little cigarette butt really has great recycling value. It is not the first time that Japan has recycled cigarette butts around the world. In the United States, a young man started by recycling cigarette butts and then established a huge recycling enterprise with more than 24 million US dollars. Before talking about the great value that cigarette butts can bring, it is worth mentioning that smoking is harmful to health. Tobacco will produce more than 3,800 kinds of chemicals after burning, and there are hundreds of substances harmful to human body. Smoking all the year round can induce cancer, leukemia and so on. It is a well-known health killer, and nearly 6 million smokers die every year in the world. However, China is a big tobacco country, with about 350 million smokers in China, producing tens of thousands of cigarette butts every year. These cigarette butts were randomly discarded in the roadside garbage dump, but the Japanese regarded them as treasures, and went across the ocean to set up factories in Shandong, China. In fact, they all come from these three substances in cigarette butts.
Acetic fiber plus pure nicotine Acetic fiber is a substance as white as sponge. This thermoplastic resin is difficult to degrade, but it can be converted after recycling. Artificial fibers that can directly contact human skin are used in medical gauze containers, and even scraps can be processed into mosquito repellent stickers, and the price reaches thousands of yuan a catty. Cipher alcohol in cigarette butts is an important raw material for drug synthesis, which can play an antibacterial, anti-inflammatory and cardiovascular role. When the market price is as high as 5 million yuan per kilogram, Jane is what we often call nicotine, which can stimulate the human central nervous system, while quantitative eyelids can play an antidepressant role and can also be made into pollution-free residual pesticides and insecticides. From this point of view, it is self-evident how many times the price can be sold by recycling cigarette butts at the price of six yuan a catty and then transforming them. It seems that we have made a profit, but in fact Japan has made a profit.
So Japan doesn't have its own cigarette butts? Isn't it cheaper to use your own cigarette butts? This has to mention the Japanese environmental awareness, and their attitude towards garbage disposal is really admirable. Garbage should not only be classified, but also a bottle should be divided into several kinds of garbage. Cigarette butts should not be discarded casually, and they can only be discarded after soaking. The soaked cigarette butts are troublesome to handle and the materials are destroyed. It is better to import cigarette butts directly from big tobacco countries at low prices. In fact, not only Japan is recycling cigarette butts in Dali now, but many European and American countries are aiming at the huge profits brought by cigarette butts, turning waste into treasure and recycling cigarette butts in large quantities. China started late in this field, and there is no complete industrial chain at present, so it can't compete with other countries such as Japan for the time being, but I believe that in the near future, we will be able to master the core of this technology and realize China's self-recycling, and we will no longer be the big buyers. However, although the prospect of cigarette butts is good, it should be remembered that smoking is harmful to health.